Sunday morning June the 26^th 1864

in the feild near Keneasaw Mt

           

Dear father it is with much pleasure that I am once more permitted to write you a few lines to inform you that John and I are both on the land and enjoying good health and truly hope that this may find you all well at home we received your letter of June the 8^th the other day and we was very glad to hear from you and my other shirt and that tobacco got through all right and at that time I would rather have had it than any thing that you could have sent us for we was out of tobacco and there was no chance to get any for our sutler is back at Chattanooga and it has been six months since we have been paid and I dont think that there is dollar in our Company and if we had money there not much tobacco about here to sell and I was just needing a clean shirt at that time and Capt White says that he has thought of you severl times since that came as he is a great hand to smoke and he was out of smoking tobacco then and I made him / a present of one twist of the tobacco which I hope that we will get home in time to to help you smoke chew your tobacco this winter since we wrote before we have advaced about two miles we have got the Johny rebels all on the mountain our skirmishers are on the foot of the mountain and the rebels are on the top where they will be apt to stay until we get them off by a flank movement for the hill is so steep that a man could hardly cimb it if there was no enemy to molest his progress we have good breast works to lay in if the Johneys try to drive us we will go in on our mussle they have used more artillery on us here than any place that we have ever been but they have not done us any harm yet that I know of only killed a horse our artillery answers to all of their shots and we have the advantage as they cant depress their guns enough to shoot down the hill on us to any certainty both armies is pretty quiet to in our front our batteries has fired a few shots but got no reply yet there is heavy cannonadeing just commensed away on our right we can just hear the cannon and that is all the fighting has been about the same every day for / over two weeks we have taken a good many prisoners and the rebels made a charge the other night on the 20^th Corps and got repulsed and left 800 dead on the feild our pontoons was taken to right yesterday and I think that old Johnson will have to get out of this or he will find the Yanks in his rear I guess that we are on the right road for Atlanta and I think that we will get there some time this summer if nothing turns up in our way but but old Johnson and his force and then I think that if old U S comes out all right at Richmond that this will be about the last campaign that we will have to make for I think when that is done that we will elect a good democrat for a president and the war will naturally play out if dont why our time will be a playing out and if I get out this time I will stay out I will serve old uncle Sam faithful for three years and then I think that me and him will have to part all of the boys from our part of the country are well and hearty Steven Minor was at our camp a short time ago and stayed pretty near all day with me he is well and hearty there is not much more news / at present that I know of the weather is offal warm and has been very wet for a month there is some very fine country through here the crops look splendid in some places and other places we find the grasshoppers a setting on a stump crying with hunger well pap I dont want you and mother to be uneasy about us for it will do no good we are not uneasy for if we are born to shot we will be shot and not with out give my respect to John Beebe and all of the rest of the folks and tell them to write as often as they can I would write more if I had any thing to write with So no more only I remain as ever your son

                                                                                   

Sam Daubenheyer

 

Hurrah for McClellan

 

no stamps and glad

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