Camp greg va may 9th 1863
mrs marian williams
Dear ant hit is with the
favor of the lorde that I atempt to
right you once more and hit is hard
times [??] now we hant drawed nothing
to eat in 4 dayes an I dont now when
we will we hav bin fiten for 9 dayes
the fite is completed hit was one of
the hardest fites that we hav ever
had yet we lost six hundred out
of our brigade we lost 3 men out of
our companey hit was j t Bishop an
Jon A best an riley whitch
I was sory to part with though the best
of friends has to part also thare was
9 others wounded I cant name them
brother willyam was wounded in [1]
both feet by A Shell one of his feat
is hurt very bad the other was not
hurt so bad lewis is sick an agone [2]
to the hospittle I hant seen him
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nor willam mea an Daniel is both
well as could bea exspected I cant
tell what they will do with mea yet
I hant heard aney thing about hit
yet I am going to try to get transferde
to A hospital if I can I dont nowe
[??][???] will bea [??] well I must
come to A Close rite mea Son
you can direct your leter as before
Calvin Thomas
god morning
girls I am well how are you
well girls you must excuse mea for
telling you that Story for I did
not do hit intentionely so I beg
to bea exscused for hit you must
rite to mea for I hant the
Chantch to rite So you must
excuse my short leter ell
the boyes houdy for mea
calvin Thomas to his cousins