Dear Wife and Family,
Not having heard from you in a great while, I did not know but what you would like to hear whether I am dead or alive. I am enjoying good health at present. We have had an awful march and a terrible battle. A great may of our boys were killed or wounded but I escaped without a scratch. It is a miracle that we were not all killed or wounded. We were in the thickest of the fight, making a charge on the Rebs a half a mile through a fire of grape and cannister. Our Regt. lost a 100 men in 10 minutes. Our company or sqaud lost 8 killed and 14 wounded. Stephen Hunt… was wounded in the hip. I have not seen him since he fell… Stephen was a good soldier full of his fun. We miss him.
This has been the hardest