May 20^th 21^st 1864

Camp near Cagsville Gorgia.

 

Dear Mother Brother and Sister

                        I am again permited by the blessing of a kind providence to write you another letter, and comfort your feelings by letting you know that I am in excelent health and have stood our marches very well. I suppose that you have heard about our being in battle and therefore you are anxious to know how we came out. I will begin at the time our corps came in contact with the enemy. there had been some fighting before that. May 13^th our advance guard struck the rebs. a part of the corps formed / a line of battle and fought them, driving them from their first line of works. on the 14^th our Brigade was brought to the front line but done nothing except slight skirmishing. two men killed and two wounded in our regt. on sunday the 15^th we changed our position to another place, and at about 12 oclock our Brigade charged a fort and captured four pieces of artilery. it was said by Gen Hooker and others that it was the most wicked and daring charge they ever saw. our Brigade lost about four hundred and forty five (445) killed and wounded. 54 killed. our company lost three killed, one wounded so that he died the / next day. Lieut. Welkesson was shot through the left rist. I will give the names of the lost in our company

 

            Killed

            Granville Thurston

            Philip Deis

            Joseph Blackburn

            Mortaly wounded

            Corporal Henry Mosrow, now dead.

 

wounded that will recover,

Ben Jeffrey through right hand

W^m Frones through the thigh

Ed Archdeacon through foot.

Phin sherwood in calf of left leg

James Davis finger shot off.

John Elbon through shoulder

Granville Mcdonald through left arm now taken off

George Martin head bruised in some way to affect the brain.

David Welch in the leg

David Perine very slight in arm /

Corporal Frank sherwood very slight in head

Dan st John leg bruised in someway. he dont know how.

 

this is the list of those hurt in our company we were hurt worse than any other in the Regt. Ely Wilson was shot through the neck but is recovering. this battle was fought at Issacca the rebs left that night and we kept in hot pursuit skirmishing every day untill the 18^th when they reached here and atempted to make a stand but we brought up our artilery and shelled them out with but small loss now they are retreating as fast as posible. Deserters come in daily. we have possesion of Kingston. some of our troops are still plowing. I believe there is nothing more that I can tell you about the battle, or nothing that I think of now. I saw Jeniah st John a few days ago he is in good health. I received Emma's letter of the 8^th yesterday. my sheet is full so I must close. Ever your son and Brother,

W H Bone.

 

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ink is scarce this will be hard to read.

 

The reason that I have not writen before is that all mail is stoped at Nashville during this month, then it will be sent on.

 

I got a letter from Mary yesterday also.

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