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Forest Hill May 13th, 1864

My dearest Sister,

We are still I fear cut off

from communication with the outside

world but I will begin my letter [?]

soon to be able to send it. I reckon that you

are quite uneasy about your little sister

here in the midst of our yankee friends.

I assure you, altho I have been blessed

with the sight of them only as prisoners,

I have been no little excited by them.

Monday night we could plainly see the

flames from our burning stores from

Beaver Dam. Tuesday morning we were a-

wakened at five by [distant?] volleys of mus-

ketr, & about eleven more intensely exci-

ted by seeing our Maj Gen flying down

the road. Five or six came on, told us they had

been fighting ever since twelve the night

before, being only 200 strong had been obli

ged to fly & even then going to the [?[

to join their infantry & [?] there to make

a stand. That the yankees 1,000 strong

[?ing] 200 negros pressed into [?] by [?] [?] were only half an hour

behind them. Their loss had been great

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and all were much expected. After they

left we busied our selves in sending

stock of all kinds off & concealing our

valuables. Mr. S and the boys [?] off the [?]

& we took our stations in our rooms. Agnes

came up here with me momentarily ex

pecting the enemy but [?] mind to save

as much as possible. As the day passed on

however & they did not come we composed

ourselves & went to sewing. We did not hear

anything now [?] except that I think Lee

[?] pressing their rear (fighting there all day) until five when

half a day soldiers rode up, told us the Yan

kees had [?] off into the [?]

road about three miles below us & that our

troops were there passing by our [?] gate.

We hastened up each carrying buckets of water

with us and stood there handing water to

our dear wearied, dirty soldiers from that

tie until night. Often our water gave out

& the wearied servants could not bring it

fast enough so we carried the buckets

from the house (100 yds) ourselves, & once

I even went to the spring with one I was

simply repaid for any exertion by seeing

the eagerness with how they received it.