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May 11th 1862
        In camp 25 milles from Williamsburg
                        on the road to Richmond.
            Dear Ma, Your kind and always welcome
letter of the 6th was received by me lass night and I having time
I take this oppitunity of answering it. I am rejoyced to hear that
you are regaining your health and hope by the time you receive
this you will be intirely restord to good health. I wrote a letter to John
write after the battle of the 5th at Williamsburg in which our regiment
bore a very active part and allthough we was in the thickest of the fight,
we came out of it with the loss of 3 killed & 5 wounded. Dear Ma,
it is nothing to go into battle but after the battle it is orfull to
look around and see so many dead lying in all shapes ho a fiew
hours before was full of life and as active as I am but
such is war. I passed over the battle field on the morning of
the 6th. I volunteared to go and look up the dead and wounded
if thear was eney and such a site met my eyes I hope and
pray I may never see again. We wiped the enemy but
we had know cowardly for to deal with and meny a
man was made to bite the dust before they gave way.
It was night when we silenced thear fire but we had
no idea we had wiped them and we made big [?calcre] latrins