Bolivar Heights, (Md),
Aug. 22nd, 1864.
Dear wife,-
Accept this. We have been in a hard skirmish. I am all right. Alva Warren badly wounded. Our regiment lost 35 men in killed and wounded. Our regiment. Col. Hale and Maj. Dwinnell both wounded. We held the Rebs though all day.
Charles.
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This letter was written evidently under great excitement with a lead pencil, as it shows that the point of it had been moistened several times while writing the short letter.
