Piedmont Va June 28. 64
Dear Father,
With a Sad hart I have to
inform you of the death of my loved & only
Brother I have not writen for twenty
days for want of information concerning
him He was wouned & left on the
field at the Battle of Piedmont on the
5 of June. On the 13 made application to
go in search; but as the enemy were in
that vicinty my request was not granted
So we were taken on a 300 miles march
& came in ten miles of this place & I got
permisian to look for him & have all
of the particulars a part of which I
will now give. Brother was wounded, Shot
through the bladder at 9 o’clock Sunday
evening 5 inst. & fell in the hands of
the enemy who carried him to Mr
Isac Myre’s & dressed his wound. He Seemed
to Suffer for two days after which he
appeared easy untill the 23 when he became
worse until he died. He died on the 25th at
10 A M & was nicely buried in the Church
yeard on Sunday. He was well dressed &
burried in a good coffin Mr Myres at
whose residence he died is a wealthy &
highly respectable citizen he had evry at
tention that could be given. The ladies
of the place hav Spared no pains to
comfort th wounded I hav visited a
number of the Ladies who attended
Brother & all of the Town Seemed to
know him & had taken an interest
in his welfare. I have the names
of those who gav him Clothes & talked
freely with him. He often Said he
was willing & ready to die & told them
how he had been taught & how thankful
he was for it He Spoke of Ma & Said
if She knew he was so badly hurt it
would almost kill her: he was uneasy about
me for he did not know whether I
was Safe or not. Dr Blair of Tenn
attended to him & he Sayd his wound
was to bad to have recoverd although
for 15 days he Seemed to do well. The peo
ple are verry kind to me & take a
pleasure in giving information of the wounded
I have Bros effects the enemy did not take
them & are Said to have used our wounded
verry kind
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I gathered all the information I could
till Sunset yesterday & then repaired to
look at Brothers grave. it was well marked
He was buried between a Tenn & a Va Soldier
in the Dunkard Church yard Imagine my
feeling after being in suspense for three
weeks to get back the day after he was
buried I went alone to his grave & it
soon became dark & I did not wish to leave
him nor I did not I remained there
untill this morning but now duty calls
me away I belong to Breckenridges Corps
& it is ten miles from here I will
join them to night. Father Mother & Sisters
grieve not for our Loved Brother I have
evry evidence of his christianity I have
wept almost ever Since I came here but I
am calm now & upon reflection it looks
verry wrong to wish Brother to be taken
from heaven & brought back in this
warfareing world. No loved friends we will
not wish him back, but we will
prepare & meet him in Heaven. He
bore his Suffering with the greates fortitude
because he was prepared to go So let
us beare the loss for all is well with him
I can give you more Satisfaction if I
ever see you & if not you may wrest
assured that me & Brother are together
Our loss was ten on the 5th inst.
Capt McConnell Sargt Collins Wm M Gib
son J Readmon & A H Welch were brought
off wounded Minor House was Shot in
the thigh & left between here & Stan
ton & I cant heare what became of him
Give Mr House my respect & tell him
this is all the account I can give of
his Sone. Bird, Deheart, & Davis have not
been heard of but Say to there friends
I have done my best to get informat [1]
but have none reliable but I think
Bird & Deheart were captured & Davis killed
The five first named I hope are doing
well & can write home I dont know
where they are. Our rather Scattered
we came here three weeks ago with
47 effective minus ten in the battle &
12 on the long march who have been
left at various Hospitals Lts West & Welch are
both Sick I think West is at Charletville
& Welch at Stanton As ever your Sone
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