Letter from Thomas Amerson to Penny Amerson 10 Oct 1864 Taylor County, GA Camp near Petersburg, Va. Oct. 10th 1864 Dear sister I this evening seat myself to rite you a few lines which leaves me in fine health truly hoping these few lines may find you the same. Sister I have nothing of interest to rite this evening. I guess you have heard of the fighting that we have had here for the last weeks. I have been in the battles since I write you last but as lick would have it I came out unhurt tho it was the worst place that I have ever bin in. I outright suffered a rite smart. We had one man killed ded in our company. George Whitehed was killed or wounded and left on the field. I think he was killed. I saw him fall but we was forced back and never got our ded off the field. Our brigade fought two corps from 9 AM til 4 PM and reinforcement being so far off till we was oblige to give up the fight. This fight was on the 30th and the fight was renewed on the first and we drove them back with heavy loss. When we fought them the first day we had brest works to fight behind and they charged our brigade with three lines of battle and I tell you the ground was covered with the ded. I never saw such a site of ded men in my life but I fear the hard fight has not come off yet tho we have some pretty cold weather here at this time and I am in hope it will stop till winter is over. Peney I want you to send me some gloves by Mr. Fountain when he comes back. Well I must close hoping to hear from you soon. Give my love to all and write soon. Give all the girls my love and reespect. I remain your loving brother Thomas ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Beth Collins ====================================================================