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�bloody a fight as was ever painted on the pages of history all day long they fought the 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 Brest[?] he makes as brave a soldier as he did son of temperance when he cannot ride he will go afoot you speak of Sickness out in the [illegible word] vill but you are pulling on the rong string for all that I had to do thair is done away with I have no clame or interest thair perhaps you wont believe me but it is just as true as it was when I asked you to [two illegible words] but you believed it at last & so you will this I understand that Byron Yolkes[?] of[?] enlisting if so tell him to write me a letter and wait for & answer before he does