Dear mother I must write you a fiew lines and so as I have got a nough time at presant I wil tel you a bout my travels whare I left of with it in fathers we looked across the potomack and we filded across the grate bige which is a mile long when we wer in verginnia I thought it would be as far as we would have to go that night but we had to march 5 miles before we could sleep and when we got their it was nine oclock and when we saw enny soldiers they would say they wer fighting like hel right a bove you and when we got to a place to lay down I was as tierd as I ever was with in my life and slept right on the ground and was let a lone until mid night when we wer orderd up and get ready to march for chain brig which was 7 miles / they sed and we mached 14 be fore got their and a tierd and dirty set we was I tel you. on the road we past one forte and went in a nother cald Elpenalen Fort & there is one gust a bove us caulde Forte mercer and there is a forte on every hil that we can see and we are at chain rige in sted of chain brig mic Cllen past through here gust one day before we got here Stone wal Jackson is expected through here but I guess he has given it up for I have heard no cannon sence last night and last night news came by a mesenger that ol stone wal was a prisoner at washington and now I guess you wil get tierd of reading I wil close when you write tel me if you have heard from Hi or not sence the fight for I tel you it was a hard one for 800 micllen was wounded 

 

pleas tel father to send me some postage stamps for I cannot get one here and I dont no whether I shal get enny more money and or I would send mone to pay for them

 

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Pleas write soon as you get this

                       

From your son Jonas Fuller

           the 2 of Sept 1862

 

Tusday. yesterday I went of out on the mountain with a compny of men to cut doun the woods so the rebels could not come through and we could hear the cannon as plain as you could hear the old horn when I have ben on the hil to work the hardest fight that has ben faught was faugh yesterday and we expect him olde stonwal here be fore long /

 

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