William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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You see I am back in the Hospital again. I went out and took command of the 10th
four days ago. night before last we made two grand charges throught the brush
and the last one was after dark and I run into a brush heap and tore my stump of
a finger all over again and now it is about as bad as ever. I come back to the
Hospital last night and probably
it will be ten days before I can
take command again. My hand is not doing very well and I am most tired out. so
are all. this marching and fighting all the time is
enough to wear out iron men. It is awful hot and has not rained here for the
last four weeks and it is awful dusty. Our Regiment has been quite lucky since
we came down here. There has been awful hard fighting in some
of the
other Corps but we have not lost many. We hold the left of the line which rests
on the Weldon R.R. which we tore up four miles of yesterday and we are about
five miles south of Petersburgh. I hope we have not got to move very far during
this hot weather. I am in hopes to write you most every day now if I can send
them. Our boys all doing well.
As ever William