[1] Dear Sister you stated in
your letter that you was on
a soldiers funeral and
that it was a sad day for
you to see one soldier buried
but if you would haf to
see so many dead brother
soldiers laying on the field
thousands of them and also
thousand of wounded and
no body to bury them while
the engagement lasts and
sometimes thay are left lay
altagather on top of the
earth that is a sad affair
we often haf to run over
the poor dead soldiers and
dont know wich one will
always be hit next on
sunday may 3 we was engaged
on an old railroad and we
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and several more of our Coy [2]
was laying in a ditch on the
far side of the railroad and
we was laying to clost togather
and an oficer give us orders
for some of us to come to the
other side and I got up to
cross the Railroad and the
felow that was laying along
side of me hadend heard
the command and thought
I was going to run and he
up with his gun and was just
ready to shoot me and I layed
down in a ditch then he coulden
see me and he just turned
his head around the
enemy and a ball come and
took him right thrue the
head and killed him instantly
he never moved after it hit
him his name was Peter Freece
he was from Tamaqua .D [?] [3]