august 6^th

virginy pockhuntis Co

 

dear father and mother I now take the plesyour of riting to you to let you now that i am well hoping that these lines may find you well Wee are a bout one thosand mils from home in a bout 12 mils from the yankeys and yesterday a bout 20 of our men went in a half a mile of them and ther was 2 hundred of them got on this side of our men a trying to cut them of and take them prisners but ther was a old man told them of it and they retretid back thru the hi mountains back to our own camp we have marcht one hundred miles after we left the cars i have rode a bout 9 hundred miles and / we com thru four tunels one 2 miles long and of all the fine citys i never saw the like be fore and the streets was crouded with ladys and the men was all gon to war ther was a batle foght the line of battle was twelv miles long our side cild twelv thousand and tock 15 or 20 thousand prisners and old scot made his escape on horse back after the tale of his fine uniform cote was shot of but i wold a bin glader if they had a shot him thru they made three cherdses with banets the last chard they lockt banits and stod fast tell the yankis was orderd to run and they left a bout thurty thousand guns and 42 canons and our men got them We think that peas will be made in 2 or 3 monts / but the bares and panters holering a round the camp there was a der run thru the camps the other day and we surrounded it as come and cetcht it by hand i was on picit gard all day yasterday and last night and was on a day and nite before and the rufist big mountains you ever saw we met some wonded men a going home and a ded man or tou and now i want you to rite to me i have rit severl leters to you and one to South Carlina and i hant got but one letter yet from you and so rite to me when we started from richmond and got ten miles from there the biler busted but never hurt no body but we had to stay tel anuther com and carid it a way / so rite to me as sone as you can Direckt your letters to V. A monterre the 6^th rigment of north carlina in the care of captain ship i cannot rite much more for i cant git paper and ink so i must come to a close by saying let god be with you all

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