Dear pearants,
I now take my pen in hand to inform you that I am yet a live and well. We have seen 3 days more of hard fighting. 4 killed out of our Co. D. Sargent Trask private Cob and Henry Glasier from Corydon is dead and Stewart. And 7 wounded, Nelt Gear in the Right brest mortely.
The 14 day we comence fighting on South hill. The rebel ocupide the side of the behind rocks and Stone walls while we took the flat. But we chaised them over the mounting and slauted [slaughtered] them big. There 1 was killed 3 wounded of our Co D.
The 15th we laid over. The 16 fought again: 3 killed and 4 wounded of our Co. The 17 none hurt of our Co. William Kibby was killed from Kinzua. Steven Harris is wounded in the hand. He is in the 10 Regment.
Alass and we lost our Col. McNeil. The 16 he was shot through the hart. We hant got but 2 captins in our regt. One of them act as Col.
Oh Dear parents we day before yesterday we came a cross a part of the battle field where the dead laid so thick a man could step from one to a nother without eny trouble at all. Some places they laid a cross each other and they was swelled so they looked more like some kind of wild brutes than men and black as nigars. Oh how horable it did look. Some shot in the head in the boddy. Some both lages of lost up and some mangel in the most horabel maner that can be thought. They was mostly secesh.
But we want in that fight there. Our Regt has the best guns in the U.S. Brich loders and self capers. All the kinds of fish we could catch this summer was catfish bass sunfish eels herrins and perch. Tell me where Leeorren Labree is and how to write to him. Tell me if you got the last $12 1 sent to you.
I will now close by abserving that it is through the help of the Lord that I yet live. Write soon.
your sun, hear is 25 cents,
