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Louden County

Camp Near Leasburg Va July the 15, 1864

Dear Wife after my best respects to you I am well at presant hoping that when those few lines comes to your hands they will find you all enjoying the same state of health we have bin through Maryland we captured I extect fifteen hundred or two thosand horses we captured and killed and wounded a grate many yankys we are here on the south side of the potomac rivre it likely that our brigade will come back to South Western Virginia we have not lost but very few men out of our brigade tell mother and Silas and Alice that papy is well and would like very much to see you all I have not heard from home since I left I would like to here from home but there is no chance to xxxxxx
we have marched two thosand miles since I left home I have my mare yet the most of our boys that got new horses xxxxxx keep my old won from back is scolded I got a horse in maryland I left xxxxxx with the lead horse I suppose he xxxxxx to keep but one xxxxxx you must xxxxxx the best you can I cannot tell when I will be at home if we get to come back to Monrow it likely that I will get to come home before a great while you need not to write to me until you here from me a gain the railroad is destroid so a letter can not xxxxxx Colonel Bowen is going back xxxxxx the valley of xxxxxx

L. D. Fletcher to Mary M. Fletcher