Winchester Via

Oct 20^th 1864

                                                                                               

Dear parrants & all

I will write you a few lines this morning in a great hury to let you know I am well & hope you are the same you probly have got my letter I wrote to you when I was at martinsburgh about what I was there for I was down there to guard a wagon train and we got started back and got most back when we met our army on the retreat So our train [?] and come back as far as here but we went on to help them fight but did not get there / in time so we come back to whare we be now you probly will here about the fight before you get this the rebs took our men on a suprise early in the morning and I guess our men got rather of the worst of it but the report is this morning that our men have drove them back again It was a very hard fight and it was a luckey hit that we hapend to be gone from the reg if we had been with the regiment we probly should of been in it I have not heard from the regiment but I hope wallace and the rest of the boys did / not get hurt I dont no as they was in it but they was there to the front so probly they was our lutenant says he thinks we shall go to the front to pick up the dead and wounded I hope so for they say there was a lots of our wonded layed on the groun last night we are about 4 or 5 miles from whare they had they fight but we was good deal nearer yesterday we are in camp waiting for orders I dont no the name of the camp but not a great wase from winchester about 3 or 4 miles from there 

 

I cant write much more for I think we shall leave before long if I had time I would like to tell you what I see yesterday and all about it you see we was whare the wounded come back I tell you it look hard

 

Mother dont worry about me for I am well and contented and like it first rate you may say I say so to keep you feeling well but I do like it well good by for this time

                                                                       

Ira A Torrance

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