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� At Getysburg [Gettysburg] 31 amputated below the knee B J Clifford wounded in the face loss eye H Chesley in neck. B Hilton in shoulder. Ml Harm thumb shot off. J West arm burned G Morison side slight. G J Walker knee brused. Our line was drawn in just before day and lay down on the top of the hill without taking off our harness and slept a few minutes. July 3rd In the morning our reb was sent from the picket-line landed, with canteen-s, he got loss looking for mates and was taken prisoner. We were maned to the right a mile and lay in reserve behind a stone wall, ready for an imergency. There was terrific fighting thru the day but we was not called in. Thos janies we learned to brake and line but got their own brake. 4th But little fireing thu the day. I wrote a letter to Frances, 5th We advanced in line of battle a glass the fields evereel with dead men and harnes, up to a road but saw no enemy. In the orchard by a house lay piles of loaves of bread that the rebels