September the 20/63

 

Highly Esteemed Pa & Ma

I am once more permited an oppertunity to pen you a few lines which leves me well and well doing hoping when these few lines comes to hand thay may find you both well or fast geting well I serpose thay have begun the game in frount thay the engagement tuck place yesterday they went together so I have bin informed without showing aney fier on either side thay are still fighting we can hear the canonadeing very distinctly thay fire so fast a person cant hardly peseve the space of time betwene the shots our quarter master has just returned from the point this morning he says that one division was badley cut to peces yesterday I was very sory to here of that but it is a unmistakeable fact that some badely will get heart in such a fight as that has bin and I dout very much that the worst has come yet tho I hope Rosey will take his intire Comand with out the loss of any more men dont understand me to say that I beleve he will only hope he will to gave you my apinion on the / I beleve it will be the hardest Batle that ever was fough on the contenent of Amerrica my Reasons for thinking this is that all of the Tenn troops or all that are yet with him think it ther last chance as they have bin driven from ther state And many of them think this will put a end to the sothern confedracy if Rosey is sucksessful And owing to them sircomstances I think thay will make a despert fight and all the rest of his men I think will fight harder than they ever did before tho I beleve Rosey will gain the day drive them away or capter them I have a heepe of faith in Rosy Deserters are coming in daley I havent heard aney talk of us leveing this place and I dont care if we dont untill times gets healther down in Ga All tho if we are ordered to go to the asistence of our union difenders I will go without thinking the least bit hard as we come out to put down rebelion and we must do it at all hazards not that I am asken to fight but that I want evry man ho is in rebelion agants the united stats disarmed and pece may spred her wilc mantel over our allmost torne up Countrey again 

 

I never beleve the goverment of Washenton will go to distrucktion while one Rag of the old flag remans untrampled down and the memory of washenton Jackson and other grate men are in ther bosoms I speke of the conservetive men thay are the men that will have to restore the union to it former standing and them alone I dont consider the Ablishenist party any advantage to this goverment it is true that many of them petend to be fighting in its defence but you now that we can have our one apinion about that I am as much apose to ablish as any body but first we must put down the rebelion then down with them or any other party that medles with state rights and institutions we cant do all things at once first down with the instagater of the ware then arange things acording to law and justus Excuse this uninteresting leter Tell all the children howdy and to write soon Give my respecks to all my relaytives and friends jenerly write soon and I will do the same so now more but Reman your friend

 

And son untill deth                 James T Thompson

            to G W & M A Thompson

 

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G.W. & M.A.

Thompson

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