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At Bankesford May 6th /63
                         Dear Parents,
                   I have passed through one
                 of the worse battles I ever saw
in my life with only a slite flesh wound.
Oh. my parents how my companionds did suffer.
Out of about 150 men in our regiment that
made a charge on Sunday morning on the farm
stone wall, 70 were eather wounded or killed.
Ownly for my haversack I would have got
a very bad wound as the ball that struck
me nocked my tin cup in to three peases
and then passed through my haversack then
through my coat pants and every thing and
gave me a wound about a ¼ of an in deap
in my leg. This happened early in the morning
our regiment being the ownly regiment that
made the attack. We having no serport we
were repulsed. The hights was taking
in the afternoon by our men and reta-
king again by the rebs the