October 13 1862

 

Dear friends it with plasure that i attemt to write to you to let you nou that i well except a wound that i got on my head by a sell iam now in a hospital in Mary ville the doctor says that he is going to send the wond to louis vill in a fu days the doctor sais that he think that i can gow to the rigment in a fue day We have had the biges fite that bin sence the war comce i tell you that the boul fell thick i got shot be for i fird a gun i think that we cild a bout 1,000 and wond a bout 15,000 hunder of the coundr thay run

 

ther has bin som scirmish eve sence the fight the say that the big fite will com off to mrow we have some about a [?] thou men her the rebell have a large fource thou the wound rebell are here in the sam town you wrote ben oneas a bout me i have walk a bout six miles senc the fite we have lost a grate many men in the fite the rebel got our napsack and we hav nothing but wat is onn ar back that is very durtey

 

the mite bea such a thing that i would git a furlow for a wile if i do i will come home write your leter to louis vill to follow the 50 rigment

 

write sun                                                                    

Cyrus Pettijohn 

 

hav got a pen an ink so i think i will write a fu lines more the wound does sufer very much after the batle was ove i went ove the ground the men lay very thick i wish the war was over and the men was all at home a gane we are a bout 80 ms from louis ville when you write direct you leter to louis vill to folow the 50 rigment

 

i wuld lik to [?] but i must quit the man is wating for the leter

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