Acworth Ga June 26^th

 

Dear Parents

                                    Your welcome letter of the 10^th I have just recd and I hasten to answer it hoping it may find you well my health is middling I believe I mentioned in my last letter that we was on duty at this place how long it will be before we join our brigade is more than I can say there has been a great deal of hard fighting the past two weeks several trains run to Chattanooga daily with wounded men two trains have been loaded with prisoners since the battle of Cassville and Resaca the 20^th Conn Vols have not been engaged in any of the battles of Dallas and Altoona our Corps has lost / verry heavy during this campaign our Corps has gained the name of Hookers iron clads we are 35 miles from Atlanta 18 from Marietta our army is two miles from the latter place the enemy have a verry strong position and I presume it will take some time to reach Atlanta Wheeler is at work in our rear destroying bridges burning trains and so forth considering the force we have to contend with we have done more than on any previous campaign only think of our supplies coming five hundred miles through the enemys country from Louisville Ky by rail road and we have advanced one hundred and fifteen miles on this campaign all we want is to have the cracker line kept open the enemy train come within a mile of our train / the other day a shell might easily have dropped on either train they have not destroyed the rail road much only the bridges which are put up by a corps of men for that purpose we have verry warm weather as yet we have not had much sickness in the Regmt the Rebel Bishop (Genl) Polk was killed by a cannon ball the captain that discharged or fired the cannon was killed the next day by a sharp shooter Acworth is a pretty little village on the A and CRR there some good looking young ladies here but they dont like the Yanks some of them have been known to spit in a prisoners face rather than to spit their foul mouth in a spittoon they will make a spit box of a mans face D—n them / and all that do likewise but I am happy to say that all are not of this stamp three ladies whose friends are in the Reb army come to see if they couldnt do some thing for the sick and wounded in the hospital I am much obliged to you for stamps and you can send me some when you write as we are out of money and evrything else I have six months pay coming to me the first of next month I will now close with love to all

                                                                       

I Remain Your Affect Son

Geo S Palmer

 

Altoona Pike

Good road soil good

Marietta Pike              

                                                                       

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