July the 16/63

James Island July 15/63

 

Dear wife after my best love to you I seat my self this morning to drop you a few lines wich I trust may find you all well as it leaves me quite well at present though very much out done for sleep We have been on duty 36 hours out of 48. it is too tite we have over 500 men on picket every day of infantry we doant act as picketts now we cant stand it but we act as couriers or send 25 couriers out every day we get nothing for our horse hardly to eat they fall off every day so mutch hard riding to do cary dispatches / from one reg officer to the outher all the time going hard as we can Our fort on Moris Island has done well they have shot it for 4 days steddy I think that it is all rite if we can hold it we can whip the yankeys very well we have driven them to the lower part of the Island we shell them all the time there is about 5 thousand yankeys on the lower part of the Island they wont come ner a nuff to our batteries to shoot them My dear wife you must not listen to eny report that you hear there is so many lies going that you cant hear the truth at all 

 

Dear wife we moove from where we was station near to town so that if the yankeys was to whip ous we could get off the Island very easy I think that we are all rite yet we have put large force on the Island now there is 5 or 6 thousand men on the Island now there will be grate thundering on the Island when ever the yankeys advance on our batteries I hear them one nite when I was on pickett but thank god we dont have to go on pickett now there is only three Company of Cavalry on the Island and it take them for courier duty all the time My Dear you must not make your self oneasy about me I dont feel the least oneasy about my getting kill or eny thing hapening to me I feel that god is able to save me from the hands of the enemy and I beleive that he will do it and that to the utmost Dear wife give my best love to Mah and all the rest of the family and Dave and Ann I must close Pray for me my dear wife and tell Mah to remember me I cant get a picture tel the fuss is over I dont think it will last much longer it is doubtfull if they attact ous at all on the Island they may quit when we whip them on Moris Island May god bless my dear ones at home I remain your Loving Husband untel Death H. Hill

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