June the Sevintheenth
Battle feeled vrgina
My deere wife agane iam spard
to right to you but it is Just
threw my good lock be caus all
of the ridg ment is cut to peasis
out of the hul of oure ridgment
there ante but a bout one hundred
men left it has bin one
of the werst Slatters ever none [1]
but i am well yet to day is
Sunday and last night
i did lay in a corn field
where we did fight night
be fore last and drove the
rebils from we ar a driving them
fast but meny aman dos fall
now how i do long to See you
and hanah ann hanah an you
must not worey about me
for if it is ni lot to com home
i Shall and if not it will be So
when i do get home then we shall
be hapey
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and see as mutch comfert
as we do sorrow now a good men
meny do git woonded and gos home
now to day the canon is aranering
to a good rate and we ar a shell
ing the Sitty We did have a hard
a hard march we did march day
and night for one hundard milds
and went right in to battle the
same day whene the men was
compleatley tired out
Hana dontt worey a toll about
mee for i do think that i shall
have the privaledg of coming home
agane we shall have a nother
fight before night we do expect
for while i am arighting the
firing dos in creese fast
and i do haft to right
fast for i do expect to be orderd
in before i do finish now
i donte now whene I can right
agane i hant got now
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let ters from you in som
time for we have bin on
the moove so that the male hante
com to us yet but if we dont move
from here it will be in to morow
tell father and mother
that i send my bes re
spects to them
if i can have the luck to get
Home agane how hap pey
i shod be which i do realey think
will be if it is god will for me to
S good by to all of my
nabors and to my dear wife
and child good by till i see you
i hope of get ing aleter to morow
from you Daniel B. Lee

this is a bloody feeld
where i now right how you
wood shuder to See it
right soon Danile B Lee
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Home Sweete home
How i do long for the
thi charms is fled from
mee D B Lee