Letter from James Branan To Eliza Montgomery 24 Nov 1864 Taylor Co, GA

(Letter to Eliza Montgomery, daughter of Samuel and Vashti Branan
Montgomery of Taylor County, formerly of Wilkinson County)

Macon Ga  Nov the 24th 1864

Miss Elizar Montgomery

Dear Cousin:  I received your kind letter of the 11st inst.  And was
more that glad to hear from you and to hear that you was well  Your
very kind letter found me well Cousin I have been in one fight since
I wrote to you in a few days after I wrote to you the Regiment left
macon and sent to lovejoy station  Near Atlanta and stayed there one
day and then we was ordered back to macon and we had to march very had
to keep the yankes from getting her first  they got her first but they
was enough troops here to keep them from takeing the place tho as soon
as we got here we followed th yanks on down to griswollville and there
they gave us fight  they was in the town an as soon  as soon as they
seen us a coming they set fire to the varn and burnt it up  they had
burnt every thing els up before we got there and then we followed them
on down a mile and half below town and there they formed a line of
battle and we advanced to them about too oclock and the fith also
comenced at that time an was very heavy untill night   we had a heap
killed an wounded  they was 4 of our Co. Wounded the yankes is down
about our home I cant here nothing from home at all it is supposed that
we will leave here in a few days  Cousin Hershel Etheridge is not in
the same Co. That I am  he is at home now tho so nothing more at present
your affectionate loveing Cousin

                                         James T. Branan

Write soon and give me all the news for I would like best in the world
to come to see you but they is no chance till the yankes gets out of the
settlement   Forget Me Not
I hope we will meat again

                                         Yours   As ever


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