| | 1 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Requires cookie* | | | 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
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