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Regiment: 19th Indiana Infantry
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Fort Baker Virginia Sept 30th 1861
To Our
[“Navy Yard” Image]
Dear
Sister
Elizabeth
we take
this opportunity of writing to you to let you know that
we are only tolleable well Still we are able to go
around & feel better than for some days past Elihu is
now very well we will tell you that we are in virginia
& have been for some 2 or 3 weeks we have been
doing some pickett Duty but have had no particular
fighting with the enemy yet our regiment is out now
the union troops on Saturday night took falls Church
& Munson’s Hill our Regiment marched out to the
church early yesterday morning but the South had
left before they got their we think that there was a
fight this morning over west of us
this morning but do
not know wher we could har the cannon verry
distinctly our regiment was out last night & we do not
know whether they went out to that fight or not. we
had orders to strike our tents to moove this morning
& we got the tents all tore down & then we got orders
to wait for further orders & we are laying hear in the
hot sun waiting for further orders we may have orders
to leave hear & we may have orders to Rais our tents
hear this evening we cannot tell what we will do but
will try to
be ready. We want you to write to us as often as you
can tell us all the news. We hope these lines will
come to hand & find all well & that we will have a
spedy answer from you we have written to you but I
presume you never received it. we are doing the best
we can & are enjoying ourselves as well as we can so
far from home and friends. we want you all to do the
best you can & keep all in good hart tell all the friends
to write to us as often as you can & give us all the
news as we have no place to write only in the
sunshine we will close our letter for the Present
So farewell Ruben Clark & T. H. Parker
