July ^the 28 1863.

                                                                                    Camp near Worincton Junction

 

                                                                                                Dear parents it is with the grateest pleasure that I seat my self to lett you know that i am well and i hope that these few lines may find you all in the same state of health well we are all here that are left except the Drummers Jesse Morris has not bin with us sence the figt nor James Woods has not Jonson Toppin is in Philadelphia and a doing well Benj got a letter last evening i halve not herd from Levie. taylor since he left John Kelley is a prisner George William ramsy is wounded in the leg Jesse carter is with us again and is well all off the boys in the regment is well that you are a quainted with / and I am as well as could bee expected under the circumstances we miss Thomas very much but we cant help it dont take it hard I halft to keep in good spirits you wanted to know some thing about how he was beried if you want to find him just go and inquire where the seckond Corps hospiddle was and when you find it just take right a cross the road throu the woods keep a strait corse from the house and the you can see the boys they are all scattered throu the woods for some of them was killed agoing inn we was under shell and ball for about a half of a mile or more but Thomas was beried right where the corner of field runs up in the woods you will find the head bord nailed to a tree there / two bords nailed to one tree and one Cut on the tree there heads all lay to the tree we had not hardly time to bery him atall for we was ordered off off the field for our regment was agoing to leave we lapped him up in a tent and layed some knapsacks over him and fixed him as well as we could I think that you had better let him stay there till fall for he will bee hard to moove now and if i can get a furlow i will come home as soon as i can there is no surtainity about comeing out here now for we dont stay more than one day in a plase and you might start for one plase and when you get there we might bee a hundred miles from it all that I got of Thomases was his / figgars off his Cap and i sent them to Mother

 

there is nothing more this time of any importance

 

            siwill Close istill remain your

                        Dutifull sun George. W. Carter

                        to Grayson Carter

                        Casander Carter his

                                                mother

                                                and father

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