At the same old place,
Aug. 8th, 1864.
Dear Wife,
It is now 6 o’clock P.M. and will try and write you a few lines. Spent yesterday in visiting. Is it not often that so many Vermont regiments are brought so near to one another. The 3d division is a little from us on the right of our Division. Went to see Zopher. Found him well. He now looks well, much better that when I first saw him at Reams Station. Told him that the 8th was on our left. He went with me. Saw Henry Holt, Asa Moran and Charley Barrett. Found them all in first rate health, then came back and Zopher went to see Orrin Bartlett in the 11th. He had supposed that Orrin had gone with the other boys until I told him. It is too bad that the other Morgan boys are not here, but it is all for the best. The hard marching might have killed them. The 11th have suffered severely on these marches. I do not know as anyone has died from sun stroke in that Regt. for I have not asked, but many of them fell. That looks harder than to see a man killed in battle. Tell Mrs. Lang that her son is in the Hospital at City Point. He had a sun stroke about the time we went round to the left at Peresburgh. In a few days after he went to the hospital. The boys in the Company say there is no doubt but he is there now. Tell Loella that Orrin is well. When I first saw him at Washington he had the Diahhroea but is now well.
I wonder who does not, but Orrin is much more of a man. It has been a good thing for him.
I shall send you a paper. It gives you two views of the fighting at Fort Stephens, but the hardest fighting was not done at either time represented there. It was on the night of the 12th. I spent the last part of the night about 15 rods to the right of that burning house, and ten rods to the farther front. That dark line in the rear of the rebel skirmishers is their line of battle. I use a frying pan that came out of that burning house. The rebel line of battle came up, and on the left drove our skirmishers back. It is not a very correct view. On the right the rebs were driven back one mile and a half. Their own camp was over to the left. There was no dismounted cavalry or anything of the kind that repulsed any rebs. The first brigade of the first division drove the rebs back on the 11th, and there was not more than 300 of the Brigade there. The views are not very correct. That view of the army crossing the Chattahoochie is quite natural, though the men are not quite thick enough. We have done a good deal of that business since we first came to Washington.
I had a letter from Jacob yesterday. He is well now.
