Harrisburg tuesday Morning Oct^r 14/62

 

My Dear Madam

        As yet I can get no tidings of your Husband. I have visited all the Hospitals at this place.

           

School houses & churches are filled up with wounded & sick soldiers.

           

In one of them I found two of the Medway boys—Mr Fales & Mr Parsons of the 2^d Mass.

           

Parsons saw Fred the 18 of Sept. the next day after the battle. He was lying near a barn in Sharpsburg. His leg had not then been amputated. He went & found a surgeon & brought him to Fred. He dressed his wound in the abdomen which was by a buck shot. Said his leg should be / attended to in his turn. Parsons said he was weak & somewhat exausted. He thinks he never was moved from Sharpsburg & is of opinion that he is still there—

           

I have a description of the place so that I have no doubt shall be able to find him if he is living.

           

I have fell in Co with Cot Leonard of the 13^th Mass. His regiment is quartered near to Sharpsburg & belongs to the same Corps of the 12. if that is so, I have no doubt some of the soldiers will know all about him.

           

I shall write you again after I have been to the battlefield. I know of no other place to look for but there—

           

Yours Very Truly Rufus Nichols

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