Write soon to Frank

 

Camp Near Chattahooche

River G^a                     

July the 7 /64

 

Dear And Effectionate Wife

                        Most pleasently I embrace the opportunity of writing to you the beloved of my heart and best of friends and your kind letter of the 26 of June it came to hand the 4 of July was happy to hear from you but sorry your health is no better but rest asured you have my simpathy and best wishes and will have but that will do but little good this distant off it is my desire to be with you and to remain there but that is not the case Well Let I will give you a little of the nus in the first place the rebs were compeld to leave their strong hold and cross the river and badly demoralised we captured quite a number of prisnors our corps captured 1300 on the 3 and 4 of July could not say how the rest of the corps done / at present we are in camp and probably will remain for some time yet Hope we will it will come exceptable to us all although we are well suplied with every thing necessary plenty to eat and so on the Union army has come off victorious so far but have sufferd some loss with the rest of the good luck we lost our General in a charge a fiew days a go and several field officers there was near 1500 men kiled and wounded and missing the largest part were wounded

           

July 8^th 64

                        Dear Wife I will add a fiew words more as we are in the same camp and all quiet and I will hasten and finish this letter for you probably will be a looking for one and I would not have you disappointed by no means the last one I wrot to you was on the first of July I have rather negligent but I trust you will excuse me I know you will at times it is rather hard to get paper and writing material but at present will have plenty our Post Master went back to Bridgeport and brought up plenty of such / such things I run out of stamps but am looking for over 60 more to come to hand soon I sent to the Post Master of Chattanooga for them

 

But to something more my health is good at present also the rest of the the company W Trago is doing well with his wound Marion got a letter from him a fiew days ago that wound that was reported of mine is all false and as for being kiled I cannot see it from where I stand

 

Dear Let I donot know what to write to you for all is quiet as far as I can see only once an a while the sound of a canon to brake the stillness excepting last night there was about 300 hundred rounds fired last night I suppose it was to wake up the Johneys we have a fair view of Atlanta and the rebs by going to the top of a high mountain they had a battery placed on the first day we came in there the cars came in the first day after we came in here it caused some cheering the / Engineer blew the whistle for about 15 minutes without cessation when he first came up he was within ½ mile from the river well I must hasten and finish this scribling

 

Well Let I supose you have warm and dry wether from what you write and from I hear other wais Well I am sure we have had plenty of rain here sometimes our boys had to lay in mud and water in order to hide themselves from the rebs pickits the ditches are from 18 inches to 2 feet deep the dirt throen in front of the ditch they looked like hogs fresh from the mire I what the 100 day men will like that but they will not have a trial of it we have none here and in the east it is dry and dusty

 

Well An you wrote about visiting at Samuel Whitneys and about them not knowing of his brothers death well Am I will write to him to him and give him the particulars of his death I saw him about 3 hours before his death I believe I never saw a man suffer as much as he did he was perfectly insain when I saw him but the night before he would call for his folks well I must close write soon Love to all

           

I am your Faithful & Effectionate Husband

Frank

 

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