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Charles Cady letters, 1862-1864
1862-10-16 Page 02
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The wether is about the same here as it is up there cool nights and warm days but we have had no frost yet my health is good, Old Nick is fat as a pig so is Albert Columbus Dolittle has the ague bill Hull is troubled with the piles Ben Davis is dead, he died the 2ond of this month with the flux, he was at the general Hospital one of our company took care of him he experienced a change and died hapy they said, we got back from Iuka that day but the poor fellow wa gone before we arived, Johnethan Porter has gone north again, he never will be fit for the service, Col Arnold came back yesterday, he is as well as ever, he says that he has been in evry Hospittal on the Ohio River, after he got able for duty, they put him in the convalesent Regt at Louisville so he thought that he had better return to his own Regt, we had seven woonded and one killed in our company on Friday, Saturday we wer not engaged we lay by one of the forts as a suport, the rebels made a splended charge on a fort in sight of where we lay but it done them no good our troops mowed them down like grass I saw part of that operation, on Friday our Regt engaged the enemy in close conflict about forty minutes but they out numbered us we had to fall back. I had a good place behind a tree, I shot nine times at a good mark but I cant say that they
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The wether is about the same here as it is up there cool nights and warm days but we have had no frost yet my health is good, Old Nick is fat as a pig so is Albert Columbus Dolittle has the ague bill Hull is troubled with the piles Ben Davis is dead, he died the 2ond of this month with the flux, he was at the general Hospital one of our company took care of him he experienced a change and died hapy they said, we got back from Iuka that day but the poor fellow wa gone before we arived, Johnethan Porter has gone north again, he never will be fit for the service, Col Arnold came back yesterday, he is as well as ever, he says that he has been in evry Hospittal on the Ohio River, after he got able for duty, they put him in the convalesent Regt at Louisville so he thought that he had better return to his own Regt, we had seven woonded and one killed in our company on Friday, Saturday we wer not engaged we lay by one of the forts as a suport, the rebels made a splended charge on a fort in sight of where we lay but it done them no good our troops mowed them down like grass I saw part of that operation, on Friday our Regt engaged the enemy in close conflict about forty minutes but they out numbered us we had to fall back. I had a good place behind a tree, I shot nine times at a good mark but I cant say that they
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