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Yours of the 24th was received about dark last night and was glad to hear from you. I
am well and hope these few lines will find you the same There is nothing that does us
so much good as to get a letter and I am thankful that I get about as many as anybody
else in our Company I received three last night. I tell you it
keeps me a
writing almost all of my spare time and I am glad of it for it keeps me from being
homesick and that is a good thing out here you know. Since I last wrote we have moved
as you preceive and have had a couple of Skermishers the
last was a week ago last Saturday we started about dark to drive the rebels out of
Falls Church, and Munsoons Hill, one event about four miles then halted in a
[peice] of wood and sent out a few Skermishers about one hundred
yards ahead of us to give the alarm if any to be given we had not been there but a
short time before we had some [ ] work you see there
was two Regiments ahead of us and a few Cavelry men that we
knew nothing about and when these fellows came back the troops ahead of us thought
them to be some of the rebels so they fired into them at this the Cavelry men
thought
us to be rebels in turn and fired back and made a charge upon us
and I tell you the way that they flew around our heads was a
caution there was one horse night close to when I stood and two more a little way
below there was quite a number of men killed and wounded but there was none killed in
this Regiment but a few wounded there was three wounded in this Company besides
myself I only got a cut [acros] the bridge of my nose with a bayonet
it is quite a cut but that is nothing for next morning we drove the rebels as far
back as we to when we started from Camp and got back on Monday
afternoon all nights we expect an attack will be made by one party or the other very
soon and we are all longing for it and I presume that they are as fast as we are
get a prisoner every once in a while and they take one
some
from us but all these things a Soldier must expect I suppose that
you know that the 4th and 5th Regiments are out here with us and I tell you what we
have some [ ] times that is for the chance that we
have there is not much agoing on here now so I must stop you must excuse this short
note I have two more letters to write to day this is the second already receive this
with must love
FromAlbert May
as Before