Letter to wife, 1864

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May 12. 64

My dear Wife. We have been fighting almost every day since my last. To day is the heaviest fight of this Battle & if we can only whip them to day I think Grant will fall back, but you have no idea of the magnitude of to day's fighting, it is positively awful. So far in the numerous fights of this battle we have been successful, but our Battalion has suffered a great deal. We have killed a great many of the Yankees but they are still in large force. I have written to you once or twice but our postal communication has been cut off. Love to all. We are having bad weather.

I send this by private hands to Charlottesville. Write to Aunt L. Ned & Tom are safe to date. Dick is hurt, not seriously. Billy is well.

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Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives—Confederate
Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1855
Correspondence

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