3) (Corp W. F. Thorn - wounded both Feet) (" Hooker " Run over Rt ") John M Scovil " Rt arm & sides Minnie B. Lt. - A.S. Shelden Rt. & Lt Groin ") S. Sherman Gun Shot Lt Arm [August] Rogers, Rt Leg amput'd upper [inserted: leg] & gun shot in Rt arm Coraden Wallace Lt Foot Gun Shot A.B. Mallery Shell, Head Geo Rabb " " Theod Deneyer " " O.S. states Lt. Arm gun shot Sarg Childs Bruised leg John Buckley Rt upr leg slight Pat Mc Gowan Lt Sholder Gun Shot 89 Horses killed - 3 wheels smashed 3 [Cassions] smashed - nearly all our clothing - this is all I can say this sabbath Eve - I [want] to rest A kiss love. Kiss our Darlings. God Bless us - Monday Eve July 6th. 10.O'Clock - Em I have passed another busily day - Lieut Shelden was fixed up by me and made as comfortable and sent off with some other officers I am left here in Care of the Boys - Several of the boys who had very slight wounds are with the Battery. We have Patched up just so as to man 4 guns all told and the Battery is ready for the front - I have an other Recommend form Lieut Shelden [2] for a Commition in an Independant Command, - if you can use it - Charly Minard has been clerk at Head Qtrs of our Corps a long time and Gen Hays is in command of our Corps now - And he would not keep on his staff - a Volunteer Officer, there was a splendid Officer who was Adj't Gen. and he would not keep him because he was a Vol and has put in a Pumpkins head - (A Regular) - All tell me to give that up, and try for A Com in some of the new Batteries, Independent - It is a long time since I got a letter from you but I hope in time we shall get a mail - After getting off [Lt] S. I dressed our Boys wounds then 15 or 20 of the Boys of other Batteries then I was sent to work assisting to cut out Balls and dress the wounded Rebels and we now have an quantity of them and I shall have to help tomorrow I can do up wounds from shot or shell or Bullits quite like an M.D. - I have had quite a Dicipline I do it for that - I can see an Arm or Leg taken off and it has no more affect on my feelings, than cutting so much Beef - Dead men and plenty here - and I saw plenty [3] of them in all shapes on the field - Help to wound & Kill men then Patch them up I could show more suffering here in one second than you will see in a Life- at home It is strange how I have disciplined my feelings to see Dying and suffering men and have no feelings only a passing thought, I have some [illegible] that were cut out of men I have had quite a chat to day with Rebels - We get no mail of any kind here - I hope you will get my last letter. It is a bright starlight night and I hope a dry day for the morrow - I think of you at home and I know you know of this Battle and I think of your anxiety - for me- I think of you as at home - But cannot know what news you have rec'd of this Battle, - Give God the Glory so to him with me in prayer and thank him that he has kept me through this Bloody Battle - Oh that I was more thankfull to him His mercy endurith forever - such a 4th of July - such a Sabbath I shall long remember and these days work here among the wounded & dying - But I have learned much - I must say a little only we suffered so much in this Battle and I think if Capt Pettit had been here instead of this fool of a [Ranty] - we should have lost [4] far less The first day we [strikeout] (ie our Corps) was thrown in to fill a Gap in our lines where the [living] were massing and here we suffered much - we were driven back about ¼ mile took another Position and held untill we had No support and were ordered out - the second day the line of battle was the same shape only farther Back, the enemy had their Artillery conceled much - and then the Position that our Capt - put is in was the worst we could have Capt Pettit would never have put us in such a Place. I will mark out a little and show a little as to our Position and the Position Capt would probily have taken had he been here - I cannot map out the whole but [illegible] [where] we were - (the center)…" [text from a map contained on page four: crest of hills where Rebels were with their Artillery behind Rebel sharp shooters behind fence & logs small stream [sways] our sharp shooters [concealed] Crest of hill our lines Distance from Artillery to artillery from ½ mile A House & barn B [strikeout] works Infantry behind C our cassions D our 4 runs down slope off hill O Infantry behind, hill Road House & Orchard]