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January the 18th 1863 Dear father I take this oppertunity to in form you that am yet a lived I am not very well at present but I think i will soon be well. We left Heelena the 21th of last month and have been on the river ever since prety nare we went down to Vixburg they was about 65 thousand in the fleat we seen the elephant there we was down there several days and dun some prety hard fighting and come back up to Arkansas river and went up it about 39 miles to a fort up there and we |
had a fight there
and we took 5 thousand
of prisnors there and alot
of there cannons and alot
of mules and alot of am-
unition our loss was not
many and the Rebel loss
was right smart
we
got one man killed in our
company an one wounded
Milton Fisher was the man
that got killed we didn't
make mutch off the rebels
at
Vicksburg our regiment
we are guarding the prisnors
we are taken them upto Santlouis
we are up as fur as memhpis
now I seen Alvan Vast at
memphis yesterday and he
was well and harty.
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I ke Heaner at memphis is but I didn't git to see him ge was well I will tell you that I havent hurd from home fur about 2 months I would like to here frome home. Wyatt has had along sick spell but he is beter Heanson is sick the small pocks is going through out regiment i gess we will go back as soon as we git up there to St Louis I tell you we see ahard time I have wrote you sevrel letters but didn't git any answer - - |
you write to me when
you git this letter if
you pleas tell epraim
I wrote him two letters
and he did not anser
them and i dont intend
to write to him till
he writes to me.
tell Harris to write to me
I havent drawed any
money yet.
I must git this
time some more at
port sent but remen
ber Hearvey O Slutts
to Noah Slutts
Derect to St Louis
Mos-
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