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Ft Spanish Ala: April the 3rd 1865
Dear Brother and Sister,
Your welcome letter came to hand a few days ago, and was gladly accepted and read with interest. We are all well and doing as well as circumstances will admit at present and hope this will find you one and all the same in regard to health. We are still poping away at the Rebels and them at us. Neither side has gained advantages worth boasting of, but we are in a fair way to make them tremble soon. We have not been doing much, in fact we could not, until we got up some siege guns, we, have some up now, and more coming all the time I will try and give you a short description of our situation as we lay around the Rebel works. You are well aware that in marching Brigades and Divisions takes it by turn leading the advances and it came our turn to lead the advance the day we made the attact here.  Our Brigade was the first to attact and drive them into their works on the extreme right. We done it without any support and lost non killed. Company A had 8 men wounded, they was deployed as skirmishers and under fire longer than any other part of the Regt that day. Our Brigade being on the advance when we attacted them: threw us on the extreme right where it would have been on the extreme left of our Army Corps, if the 1st Brig had been in the advance and made the attact. The sight of our Brigade rests as near the Bay as we can get for the gunboats.

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Ft Spanish Ala: April the 3rd 1865 Dear Brother and Sister, Your welcome letter came to hand a few days ago, and was gladly accepted and read with interest. We are all well and doing as well as circumstances will admit at present and hope this will find you one and all the same in regard to health. We are still poping away at the Rebels and them at us. Neither side has gained advantages worth boasting of, but we are in a fair way to make them tremble soon. We have not been doing much, in fact we could not, until we got up some siege guns, we, have some up now, and more coming all the time I will try and give you a short description of our situation as we lay around the Rebel works. You are well aware that in marching Brigades and Divisions takes it by turn leading the advances and it came our turn to lead the advance the day we made the attact here. Our Brigade was the first to attact and drive them into their works on the extreme right. We done it without any support and lost non killed. Company A had 8 men wounded, they was deployed as skirmishers and under fire longer than any other part of the Regt that day. Our Brigade being on the advance when we attacted them: threw us on the extreme right where it would have been on the extreme left of our Army Corps, if the 1st Brig had been in the advance and made the attact. The sight of our Brigade rests as near the Bay as we can get for the gunboats.