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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters 
 Description: I write you afew lines this eavning in answer to yours of the 23 of June which I received to day and you may be asured that it afford me great pleasure to hear from you all once more. it had bin more than a month sence I had herd from home, this leaves my self and brother both well. and I much hope it may reach you in due time and find you all injoying the best of health and all other blesings, we have had a verry hard time sence I wrote to you before both marching and fighting to do, we went in to Pennsylvania and stayed for some time and had a hard Battle Near Hagerstown Getys Burg it commenced on the 1 day of July and continued until the night of the 3 day, and then both armys fel back with great loss, we went in the 3 day and got nearly all of our Devision killed & wounded I hope thare was not another Devision in Lees army that suffered the loss that Picketts [2] did, Gen Picketts lossed every Brigidary Gen that he caryed in the battle too killed and one taken prisner nearly all the officers in our brigade were killed & wounded. we lost our Col one of the best men in service. he was a good offeser and he was good to his men Thay all loved him, our Lt Col lost one of his arms at Mal vin Hill and got the other one seriously wounded in the Battle the other day [3] I guess you will see a list of the killed and wounded in the papers which will be more correct than I could gave you. thare was 35 men went in the battle in our company and thay was only 15 of them cam out fit for duty, My self & Jon come through safte are we not luckey ah we have bin so far thay was a ball pased through my sleeve though it did not hurt my arm, me and Jon came verry near being taken prisner on the day of the battle I told him when I saw that we were nearly surrounded I told Jon that we would run and try to get away from them and we made our ascape by doing so, while several of our boys that was with us let the Yankees take them. we have taken a great many of the Yankeys prisners . our Devision brought some five or six p thousand of them to this place, I hird that the Yankees papers stated that thay lost forty thousand killed at the battle at Gettysburg, I hear of a small battle nearly every day and I am expecting another big battle every day. though I don't think thay will put our Devision in, our brigade is on guard in this town, the citerzens of the town seem to be in favor of the Yankees mostly,
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