New Kent Cort house va may 11th
1862
Dear ma
I take the oppotinity this
Evening to drop you afew lines
to let you know that I am well and
Doing well I have not got any nuse
to write to you that would interrest
you Only we have had afight
at wiliams Burg we whipt them
verry Bad we have taken 8 hundred
Prisners and we have got 30
thousand sarrounded and we air
going to have one of the Bloudyest
Battle that you Ever herd of in
youre life we air rite now in
aline of Battle Expecting afight
Every day when we left york town
the yankies got 1 hundred of our
Sick they have got Powell Daniel
and louis Chambers and John
Warner and Isack Watson from
our company we was in the
fight the yankies Shot a hole
thrue my hat it made
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me feeel rite Bad for alitle while
I Kild one in aPond of watter
he was Just Ready to Shoot at
some of us and I Saw him and
Shot him and he fell you
must write to me as soon
as you get this letter and tell
me all the nuse I will Come
to aclose By asking you to look
Over Bad writing I have not got any
ink write Soon and often Direct
youre letters to Richmond va in
the Care of Captin G. W. Wimberly
Company K 11th Regment ga vols
Good By
yourse Respectfuly

John A. Everett