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                           College Hospital
                             Near Gettysburg Run
                                 July 15th 1863

Mrs P. Y. Patton

    My Dear Mother
                 It has been now

nearly two weeks since I have been stretched out on the bed of suffering. You will doubtless have heard before this reaches you that I was badly wounded and left in the hands of the enemy. My sufferings and hardships during about one week that I was kept out in the field hospital were very great. I recd a wound through the mouth fracturing the Jaw Bone badly on both sides. The Doctors seem to agree that the danger of losing my life is small. Th