Letter home to Eckford, June 17/63
the leut... got mortley wounded but we did not lose a man
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Louisville June 17th Friends at homehow do you all do today I hav got home all safe and sound and no bones broke we found Charley here we[ll?] and tuf as ever five of the Companys [D,E,F,I, & K] has gon to Clumbia Ky1 and thare is 5 Companys left here thare is some of our boys gon off on a sevat[?] they had horses to ride Deney Reardon[?] and J.?.Kincaid ar with them and last friday they had a fight with the rebles and the leut[?] that was in charge of them got mortley wounded but we did not loose a man the reble loss was 15 killed 5 taken prisoner and 25 horses taken we do not... - end of page 1 - |
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...know how long we shall stay here, the word just came in that the boys ar a fighting out here a few miles and they took 200 prisoners and there was 14 of our boys killed I do not know weather eny of our boys in our company was killed or not I cannot think of much more to write this time no more at present except[accept] this from W O Wells the 17th in the afternoon I thought that I would finish my letter Charley and his wife is down in the city a boarding at the tavern only $1 a day father if you can get me a few stamps and send them to me I wish that you would for I hav not got eny money and not eny stamps the corn is nice out here - end of page 2 - |
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I see corn that was 3 feet high potatoes is as large as a goose as a Ganders Eggs green Peas as they hav out here wheat they will begin to cut prety soon it is warm enough here to keep comfortibley warm with this[?] coat on may be you will think that this is prety hard writing well I do not know as you ar mistaken much for I am in some what of a hurry [I agree] if I had not started for the _____ until the next day I could of stayed 8 days longer for Bugbee sent word to me to stay that much longer and then bring his wife[?] to him I do not know but if I had stayed much...
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...longer I should of had more we___e_ than I could get though with well seeing that this side has not got eny marks on I gess that I will not write on it [the last side of the folio is unlined] [in very large letters so as to fill the page...] No more at |
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1. The five seperated companies under the command of Col Moore repulsed thousands of confederates under Gen Morgan at Green River Bridge near Columbia thereby saving Louisville.return |
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edited by Peter J Wait, 5/10/2000