Civil War Correspondence

a taist [taste] of shelling also and a much more effective one than we received for our only loss was twoo [two] horses and one man slightly wounded in the foot I have not time to write particulars now we followed them into the Shenandoah Valley beyond a little vilage [village] (called Berryville, Virginia I believe) some nine miles

We were then ordered back and here we are again on the old ground I am in good health and have not received a scratch Had Gen Wright General Horatio Wright who commanded pressed the enemy as I think he might we would have had more fighting and I think the enemy would have went with less plunder to their home but our orders were always, not to bring on an engagement as the infantry and artilery [artillery] could not come up to assist but we could have done much without them if allowed and our Col chafed under the restraint, he had command of all the cavelry [cavalry] forces. I have no more papers and there is none in camp or I would write more particulars I will write again when I have an opportunity

Regards to all and as ever O Ayer