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Enemy & Captured 300 prisoners
Tue all now consider
ourselves given up-- Yankes on all
side-- This war has allmost
killed me-- but have tryd to
prepare my self to meet the
Enemy with calm resignation
From my experience of refugeeing
do not know which will
be the worst-- till they come
our soldiers are all at rest us
preparing beanes corn & meat--
That is generally the forerunner of
thea worse-- visitation--

I have heard nothing from B.C.
Line about the middle of last month
Your Cousin Watt was there. He
left for Texas two weeks past
My best love to Meck & tell her
she must come to see
us-- when Marsh drives the Yanks
from Miss. I wish I could