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Campwoods Pocahontas Co Va Oct 5th 61 Dear Sister I received your kind letter on the fourth of this month and was glad to hear that you all was well but hayes and I hope he is better by this time I have bin unwell for a week or more but I am getting better our men at greenbrier had a fite with the yankees day before yesterday our men whipt them about rite [...] many was killed I am not able to tell. The report is from three to five hundred yankees. Our loss was not more than two or three men we heard the fireing of the canons for about three hours. we have mooved within five or six miles of greenbrier river where the fite was you said you wanted me to write as soon as rm fuller got here he is here and I got all of the close you sent me I got one pair slips one shirt one pair pance one pair boots tooth brush handkerchief &ca. I have not bin down sick yet and I hope I will not get down while I am in this army for it is a bad place to get down you said you heard that James A Gilmer [...] down with the fever [...] the fever but the fever has brokeon him and he is getting well fast Doctor Albert is with him I wrote a letter to you [...] before stating that James A Gilmer has the fever but I dont recking you got it I neednt try to tell you all about our travails for I cannot do it for we have bin travaililing so much that I do not know where to commence or where to finish It seems from the letter you wrote to R. E. Cowan that you must have heard that I was dead but I am alive and I hope I will be permitted to return home to see you all once more and if I should have the luck to get home I hope I will finde you all there I want you all to write and let me know how hayes is I would have written sooner to all but we have running from one place to another so that I have not had time to write I have no news and it is getting late I will bring my badly written and badly spelt letter to a close but I dont know whether you can read it or not I will quit any how Martha J Gilmer Your brother W R Gilmer | |