Dec the 8 1864 Savannah GA
Dear Wife I am Stil Spar By the Blesing
of a kind father Well Mag I was in a
powerful Storm of Bouls yesterday
I fot the yanks all day there was a bout
one hundred of us faced 3 or 4 thous
yanks we fot and fell Back throw Swamps
and fields to we got to the R Rode
then got on the train to Savannah this twok
place 24 miles from Savanah on the rode
to macon out of the hundred men
wee lost forty 3 the 10 Btt [1] was
all that was in it apart of 3 CO
of it 25 of co C was in the fite
cornlis Alex Bob Query B M Ingram
and my Self we all came fo Safe
But Bob Query I Dont no wether
he was kild or taken prisner
out of 25 men we lost 6 I am in
the war nou Mag But the Lord
has Brot me Safe throu So far
I fee[l] like I am Safe unde[r] his hand
I am Sorry for Query no one
noes how [2] will Stan or fall in war
I Dont no whether wee will Stay here
or no I think we will be in it in
a fu days a gin Sherman is comin on
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