June 11^th 64
Big shanty station Geo,
Dear Catharine
I will send you a few lines to
let you now that I am well
we got to this place last night
and now I hear the cannon roreing
a bout four miles a head I dont
know how long we will stay here
the Rebs has taken a position
on what is called lost mountain
and I expect will be hard to
moove from that place but we
have a large force here and if
they stand there will be hard
fighting done here our men has
fixed the railroad up as fast
as we advance and this eavening
the cars come to this place I
dont no what to write to you for
I have no nuse that is strange
to write I think I can write
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more the next time I write
health is good here in our
Regt the boys is in good heart
and thinks they can whip Johnson
a gain I have got three letters
from you since I come to the
Regt and this is four that I
have wrote since I left home
it is getting so dark I will
have to quit writing for I
cant see to keep the line
dont be uneasy I will write
a gain in a few days

Hugh Gaston to
Catharine Gaston

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Father I will write a few
lines when you get this I want
you to write and let me know
what you saw on your trip if you
had got to come through you
would have saw a great deal
between here and Chattanooga
Father I want you to get that
Heifer that is at the Abramses if
you can Proove her I would
swear she is mine I will Pay
any thing in reason for her and
pay the money for getting her
wintered she will soon be a cow
and I think a good one I am
with the Regt a gain and am
well and hearty I hope I will
stand it now I think we are
going to have hard marching to
do before long I dont know
where Hoods army but the 4^th
14^th & 23 Corpes is after him
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I think the 15 & 17 & 20 Cores
will go south but I dont know
where to if you dont get to
hear from us a gain soon dont
be uneasy a bout us for we
may be where we cant get
to send letters for some
time I will not write any
more now.
Hugh Gaston to
Catharine Gaston &
Dad and Mam