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�Culpeper Court House Va August 14 1862

Dearest Wife I will try to compose myself to write you a few lines to let you know how we are but you must prepare yourself for the worst I wrote to Arabine from lchester[?] when I was there I left there the next morning for Washin gton and started from there the next day for camp and was on the roads a week we arrived at Camp on Tuesday and Friday we was ordered to march at a [several illegible words] we marched seven miles out and there we met the enemy in a large force Saturday we had the hardest fought battle that has been fought while it lasted about two hours we had twenty three killed and wounded

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 �Culpeper Court House Va August 14 1862
-Dearest Wife I will try to compose myself to write you a few lines to let you know how we are but you must prepare yourself for the worst I wrote to Arabine from lchester[?] when I was there I left there the next morning for Washington and started from there the next day for camp and was on the roads a week we arrived at Camp on Tuesday and Friday we was ordered to march at a [several illegible words] we marched seven miles out and there we met the enemy in a large force Saturday we had the hardest fought battle that has been fought while it lasted about two hours we had twenty three killed and wounded
+Dearest Wife I
+will try to compose myself to
+write you a few lines to let
+you know how we are but you
+must prepare yourself for the
+worst I wrote to Arabine from
+lchester[?] when I was there I left
+there the next morning for Washin
+gton and started from there the
+next day for camp and was
+on the roads a week we arrived
+at Camp on Tuesday and Friday
+we was ordered to march at a
+[several illegible words] we marched
+seven miles out and there we
+met the enemy in a large
+force Saturday we had the
+hardest fought battle that
+has been fought while it
+lasted about two hours we had
+twenty three killed and wounded