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bloody a fight as was ever painted on the pages of history. All day long they fought & many a brave youth fell with a fatal shot. No one can discribe it. We was not called into actsion today it is quiet. It is reported that we have sarounded them & given them until [?] this afternoon to bury thair dead & Surrender. How trew I do not know. We are all well. I received your kind letter Tuesday I was glad to hear from you & hope you will rite again soon. You enquired about Orest he makes as brave a soldier as he died Sane of temperance when he cannot ride he will go afoot. You speak of Sickness out in the [?] will but you are pulling on the rong string for all that I had to do thair is done away with. I have no claim or interest thair perhaps you wont believe me but it is just as true as it was when I asked you to [??] but you believed it at last & so you will this I understand that Byron Folkes is enlisting if so tell him to write me a leatter and wait for & answer before he does