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Camp near Fairfax Court House, Virginia
October 9th, 1861
My Dear Sallie,
I received your letter of the 29th about an hour ago and hasten to reply as we have just received orders to go forward tomorrow morning to the front, and perhaps before this reaches you, we will have engaged the enemy. They have been fighting now for two days, at long [illegible] with artillery. Its roar has been terrible. We have been sleeping on our guns ever since last Saturday, expecting every moment when the order would come for us to go forward. At last it has arrived. Our mission, though, will be that of picket duty on the outposts, which is very hazardous. I think the great day to decide the fate of this great army is near at hand. Soon we will know our fate. The Yankees are crossing in three columns at Sieversville, Long Bridge, Chain Bridge, and at Ocoquan Creek. So you see, they will engage our whole front, and we will have hot work of it. Though I have not ever entertained a single doubt as to our success - Victory! Victory! will be the cry.
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| Transcript | Camp near Fairfax Court House, Virginia October 9th, 1861 My Dear Sallie, I received your letter of the 29th about an hour ago and hasten to reply as we have just received orders to go forward tomorrow morning to the front, and perhaps before this reaches you, we will have engaged the enemy. They have been fighting now for two days, at long [illegible] with artillery. Its roar has been terrible. We have been sleeping on our guns ever since last Saturday, expecting every moment when the order would come for us to go forward. At last it has arrived. Our mission, though, will be that of picket duty on the outposts, which is very hazardous. I think the great day to decide the fate of this great army is near at hand. Soon we will know our fate. The Yankees are crossing in three columns at Sieversville, Long Bridge, Chain Bridge, and at Ocoquan Creek. So you see, they will engage our whole front, and we will have hot work of it. Though I have not ever entertained a single doubt as to our success - Victory! Victory! will be the cry. |
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