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ajutant Gen was kild, we moved on to the
Potomac river, then Fredrick city [?] then
to Hagers Town position back to boonsborough
gap on 14th Sept and faught until dark
that night we moved back to Sharpsburg and
on 16th this was a hard faught battle our numbers
were greatly ovr matched, Gen Lee it is [?]
not have but 35000 men to put in this fight
[?] put in action 60000 men it was
a squar hand to hand fight and [?] til
4 oclock in the evening, the confederates had
8000 lying on the field kild and wounded
Yanks estimated their loss at 12000
The Yanks did the [?] it appears as
if both parties had [?] and we
crossed the river to Va once more and
the Yanks did not attempt to follow us
We took up camp at Winchester and remained
there until Nov then to Culpeper 6th and
then to Frerikcburg on the 16th Dec 1863 the yanks
attack us a gain and we licked then to
[?] the cold weather found us picketing a
long the west bank of the Rappanonock river
many of the boys coming in from [?]
and hospital , our ranks began to fill up
[?] but just strunk how many of these
poor fellows that would [?]