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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 to let you know whare we are, we are on the out post the yankees are shooting at our men constantly tho it is very cildom thay hit eny of them, thay havent shot but one man in our Regiment he was shot thursday, the he was shot in chin, his name was T Tucker[1] be long ing to Capt Carters Company, thay was a battle faught here last weorsday eavening thay a good maney killed on boath sides tho a great maney more on the enimys side than thay was on ours we was not in the ingagement theyankees sent a flag of truse this eavning to berry thar dead, ifthay we have a general ingage ment here I think it will settle the war for the best of the two armys is here, the yankee prisners that our men have taken say that thay have got to whip or die here, and I thay will have to die at least I hope so,
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