I returned to camp
on Monday because we expected to have a fight. Our brigade was ordered away
last night with two days' rations, but I am left behind with the sick. There
are a great many sick men in the hospitals and they are dying by the thousands.
Our regiment has lost about one hundred men since we came to Virginia.
The enemy threw
shells all about our camp yesterday and killed two horses, but only one man. It
was a great day between our batteries and those of the enemy. They fired all day
long, but as it was all at long taw little damage was done. I went out this
morning to view the enemy, and could see them and their breastworks very
distinctly.
Since I began
writing this letter I hear a terrific cannonading on the left wing of our army,
and I believe the battle has opened. I am informed that General Jackson is
about there and that a fight will certainly take place this week.
You must be cheerful
and take things easy, because I believe the war will soon be ended.
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