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Robert J. Moyle letters, 1862-1906
01_1863-01-08 Page 01
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On Board the South Wester January 8th 1863 Dear Father & Mother I write these few lines to let you know that I am well & John also we had a fight up the Yazoo river and lost a good many men our regiment lost one man killed and several wounded there was only two companies of our regiment ingaged tha were skirmershes John company & another. John was in it part of a day We fought about six days and had to abond it the rebels are very strongly fortified and we were obliged to retreat or fall back just as you are amind to call it we are now laying at the mouth of the Nile river the whole fleet and where we are going i cannot tell nor can any of us even the
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On Board the South Wester January 8th 1863 Dear Father & Mother I write these few lines to let you know that I am well & John also we had a fight up the Yazoo river and lost a good many men our regiment lost one man killed and several wounded there was only two companies of our regiment ingaged tha were skirmershes John company & another. John was in it part of a day We fought about six days and had to abond it the rebels are very strongly fortified and we were obliged to retreat or fall back just as you are amind to call it we are now laying at the mouth of the Nile river the whole fleet and where we are going i cannot tell nor can any of us even the
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