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enlisted for this Regt. and now we can muster three hundred & thirty to fight. Now dear father, don't worry about me, nor go to any more trouble to get me home, for it is an impossibility-

His letter of the 4th July giving an account of the retreat is long & full of patriotic sentiment written in pencil and an old dirty leaf of an account book.

July 13-to father I wrote home as soon as I could after we got here (Harrisons Landing ) and the Mail Depot was established to put a stop to any anxiety on my account, as we have some pretty hard fighting & I knew you would be anxious until you heard from me.- I did not think dear father, that you for a moment wished me to commit such an act as to leave my Regiment as it was then and is now situated. I am sorry if I wrote it for I did not intend to. Indeed your next letter would have put me at care on that score if I had thought so. We have had some hard fighting & I want to see more before I go home, for I know we can " give them fits" the next time we get at them. - I want a glance at Richmond before I go home, and even then I should want to wait and go home with the fragments of our Noble Regiment