Big shanty station Geo

June 23, 64
Dear Catharine I have just
got a letter from you dated the 10
of this month I was glad to hear
that you was all well I have got well
a gain but I am pore in flesh
but I have a good appetite to
eat the rebs is still in sight
of us yet and has been for the last
thirteen days there is fighting going
on all the time day and night I can
see the flash of ten rebbel cannon
from here they are on top of the
Kenisaw Mountain a bout three
miles from here our Division is
held as reserve if any place
gives way a long the line we will
have to help them we are loosing
a good many men and so are they
some times I hear the roar of nearly
a hundred cannon at a time but
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they dont kill men like the musket
does I dont know how long this fight
will last here but I think the rebs
will not stand much longer we have
taken a good many prisners and their
has a good many come in and gave them
selves up they say they are out of
heart our boys has been sent
with all that was wounded they
was all doing very well when they left
here Catharine dont be uneasy
or trouble a bout me for it will
do no good I hope that I will get
home safe yet tell Alvin & Ira
& sis that I have not forgot how
sweet they all was tell them to
be good children until I get home
a gain I do hope this campaign will
end the war we have had lots of
rain here for the last three weaks
but it is clear to day we have
not got any tents with nor hant
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had since I got to the Regt
we make shelters with our oil blankets
and keep dry we get green leaves
to lay on and we sleep well the
days is not any wormer here than
they are thare wheat is a bout ripe
but is light corn looks well when
we first come to it but it is all
eat up as we go every thing is laid
waste here this was a tolerable good
country ther is plenty of good springs
the timber is mostly oak but there
is some pine I beleve I cant think
of any thing more to write I will close
and finish in the morning
mornng is here every thing has
been still since last night I dont
hear any guns this morning some of
the boys thinks the rebs left last
night but I have not heard from
the front this morning
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I will write a gain in a
few days
Hugh Gaston to
Catherine Gaston &
Children