Adams. Run. july the 5^th 186[?]

 

Mrs Mary Gordon

                        Dear Mother it is with pleasure that I seat my self this morning to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well at present and I hope that these few lines may reach you in due time and find you all enjoying the same great blessing I received your kind letter of the 30^th yesterday evning I was sorry to hear that Hagen is sick I was in hopes that we would found him here yesterday evning when we came in of picket we left here Saturday morning to go on picket when we got to the picket post we could see between 17 and 20 yankee vessels they did not come up near us until a half hour before sundown they / come up and run our pickets back about a mile and then they commec landing their troops at white point they landed about a thousand troops Saturday night and on sunday morning they run our pickits back to the brest works and then they had a little fight they were not but one killed on our side he was a artilery man they were two or three wounded I did not get in to it I was on pickit at little Britton that is about two or three miles from white point they run two boats up in a few hundred yards of us but they did not shell us until sunday about ten oclock and then we got orders to go to where the rest of them was but when we got their the yankees had commenced falling back yesterday morning / they were not a yankee to be seen they put our pickets back on their regular post tell Hagen to not come back until he gets well for this is a bad place for a sick man when he comes back I want you to send me a piece of tallow with him tell Father to send me some leather strings to sow my bridal Mr Graham is returned for duty yesterday I must close write soon and let me know how yella and hagen is getting excuse my bad letter as a hav to write it in a hurry so nothing more but remains your loving

Son                  Edward R. Gordon

 

 

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Camp [?] W[?]mington

Abbeville C. H. County S.C.

Old Tanning House

P M PUT HERE BY B.Y.C.

15 Y.D.

[?] thousand dollars

Rock

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