[1] Tullahoma July the 1[5?] Tennesse

Dear Brother I will take my pen to inform
[you?] that I am Still in goot helth ant that I
[have?] rote you auter near too month ago and I haf
not reseaved eney anser I haf poot of[f] writing for about
[???] [thinking?] everey day I wold git a leter but
again I thaut I wold rite today eneyhow and wate
till his cavenin before I will Start it v look
[for?] a large mail today mebey I will git a leter
[????] I will tell you about ouer litel fite v hat
[?] left Murpreesboro the 24 of June the hole fors
I will tell you first about the Shap of the Cuntrey
about 12 mile from Murfreesboro thar is a range
mountins from fife to 10 mile wite between thos
thar is what tha Call gapes [??] naro valeys whare tha
make thir roates throo S[uch?] ther is from 3 to 5 miles
apart between thos [avaley?] Cannot Cros now the revels
[??] in runt [of thos?] mountins at thos gaps that was
verry go[ot?] plais for them tha Coot git on frunt
thos mountins and See us Com for a good ways
[??] ouer forse was dividet Sum toke one roat and
sum another our divishion was sent to liperty [2]
gap thar is 3 brigates in a divishion ouer brigate
[???] genrel Wilick [3] was in frunt on that road
genrel Wilick is a brussion [4] dutch man but he
is a firserate man v atacted the revels Sum [???]
our was a large hill on the rite at the rote and
one on the left about a half a mile high the 49 [5] and
the 32 indanoy tok the left hill and the 15 ohio and 39
indanoy tok the rite v drove the rebs [???] [???????]
[and then?] [???] it went [???] [???]
[mile?] [??] war then [???] about 2 miles this
[???] soon I worked as hard as I ever dit
[???] [noon?] rain in the morning and raind
all day prudey hard the Sile was so slipey
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the next day thar was nothing [dunkit?] [6]
about 2 oclock the revels advanst agen ouer
brigate and the secont brigate met them
the secon is unter miller thos too brigates dun [7]
a bout all the fiting in that valey the rest are
back for reserv thar was fiting a bout on
everey road at the saim time what pordey hard fiting
that day the revls got more help tha hat ther main
fors in frunt of us tha dit not drive very goot
that day before nite the revels left tha hat all
tha wonted thos too days ouer brigate the first lost
one huntert and 2 Cild and wondit the Second
brigate lost Som more genrel Miller being
Soverely wonted at the hill when I Saw hom first I thot
he was det but I belef he is geting beter
after the revels hat all gon v went back apeas then
v went to ouer left to the next roat witch leades
to this plais whare v expected a hard fite but
about the time the troops ahet of us got near the
town the other got troops got on the other roads got
So far ahed that the rebs was afrate tha wold get
around them So tha left with out mutch fiting
tha war well fixt hear tha hat a long String
of brest work throat up and tha hat anumur of
large Canon hear but tha left in Sutch a hurey
that tha hat to leaf ther Canon them that was
to hevey and most all ther tentes and meney other
things tha Scaterd then and Stardet for the
Comber land mountens ower Cavelrey [???] after
them and toke prisners by droves for about a
weak the rebes ar now Cros the Tennesse river
som of ouer forses ar now down abot as far as
the river the tock is that v that ar left hear will
go [???] agane Soon thar has bin meney [???] throad
down ther guns and Com in and took the oath that tha
wold not fite eney more and ar going home So