April the 10 1862
Dear wife and
Children it is with the gratest
of Pleasure that I rite to you
once more I am tolabel well at
this time and hope when these
lines reaches you tha ma find you
well well Alapher I will tell you in the
Start that we had the hardest fit
that ever was faut in the united states
there was five thousand men tha covered
over ten miles of ground and the hole
ground is coverd over with ded and
wounded I gess thare are ten thousand men
cild and twenty thousand wounded the
timber is all cut down with the canon
balls and rigels shot thare hant any
of the Newburn boy hirt Some of them
got there guns shot in too thare are
Seventy cild and wounded in oure
regements we are in the woods and
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hant got eny tents or cooking
utencils here we just live in
the woods like hogs oure things
are all left be hind I beleve that
the boys is all well mi helth
hant very good at this time
we are on the batel field yet and
the ded men is thick on the ground
we are beren them as fast as we
can the batel field begins to stick
so that we cant hardly stay here
I sene as many as forty horses
ded in one pile I sene a canon
ball go through six men at one
time I cant Discribe the sene here
I wont rite any more at this time
I will rite soon agane rite as soon
as you get this leter Jim is well
H F Huffer to Alapher Huffer
I think the wore will soon be over
H F Huffer