June 11th 1862
James Ilent Ner charleston

Der Brother
and famley I take the oper
tunity of Dropen you
afew Lines to Ine form
you that I ame well at
pres tim and I hope thes
Few Lines com to hand
thay May find you
all Ine Joy ine the Same
Grate Blesin I have N[??] [page torn]
vary Mutch Nus to [???]
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to you at pres tim that
tis good I cane tell you
Sumthing aboute the
bumes Fore thay throw
them all around us Whene
Weuer one pickete and ther
has Bine afite her yester thay
fout off an on all Day
and our compy had Lack
to got ine the fite Ife the Bunes had [off?]
Fell around us Sofa[??]
We wood Bine hit [??]
We wer ine too ore t[??]
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hunderd yards of the
fite Bute the bumes
fell sofaste that We had
to Stop the Jorgy rigment
got cut upe putery bad
our Lass
cill and Woned and cill
Was about 60 ther
Loste We Dont No how me[?]
[??] We had to give
[?] ack We rune them
[??]ck to ther gone Bots
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I can Say to you ther
ise Not Mutch fune ine hit
i cane her them firen the
caning Now and I expx
to have to go every Mine[t?]
to one amarch to Mete
the eny thay cepe us
runing [?]er[ey?] all the ti[mes?]
butt I thank God that
hit tis as well With us
ase hit tis ate this tim
So no more ate pres I want
[yo?]u to rite sune againe so
[G?]ood By Auleston
Mayfield to Auleston Lister