May 5^th 1863

 

Battel ground 8 Miles

South of Fredricksburgh

 

My dear wife I wrote a letter to you on yesterday morning and shortly after the mail came in and I received two letters and a newspaper from you also the stamps which you sent in the letter I had become very uneasy to hear from you my Dear I was glad to hear that you had partly recovered your health and I do hope that you have got well by this time it was a great sattisfaction to me to hear that you had received all the mony which I sent you Dear Musy in my yesterdays letter I gave you a short/of the battels which we have been in for the last four days about ten oclock on yesterday morning the fite opened in the battel of Monday we was worsted by the rebels thy took one of our batterys and we fell back about one mile and made another stand on yesterday we retook the battery again from the rebels and now hold our first possision we had a very severe fite to retake it with a very small los of men I was in the thickest part of the fite made a great many very narrow escapes and I thank god that I came out of the battel unhurt and am in good spirrits and well This morning we expect to have another battel to day we now hold Fredricksburgh/and have the rebels surounded in a squaire of about 8 or ten miles if we can keep them from braking our lines we must take the rebel army all prisners oh Musy it is dredfull to sea the heaps of ded and wounded on the battel field after the fite is ended my dear I am well and unhurt yet if it should be my lot to fall do not grieve for me I must do my duty while here on yesterday I sent you ten dollars in my letter to day I will enclose twenty I hope you will receive it my love to all my friends and relations I send my Affectinate love to you with 20 sweet kises Adiu Musy for the present I have not time to write any more good by and/and I hope that god will preseve and protect you good by for the present

WRodgers to Sarah Rodgers

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