Ross Family Letters, RG
149
Camp
near Richmond Va.
may the
26th 1862
Dear
Brother and Sister I again seat my Self this morning to drop you a few lines
this leaves me well with the excepttion of diarear which is verry common in
camps our Boys Stand the marches verry well We have been maching [marching]
about 3 [4] weeks nearly all the time We are now in a about 3 miles of Richmond
or nearer we come hear yesterday eaving [?] We came from about 6 miles below We
have seen a hard time of it since we left Yorktown I Recond you have heard from the battle at Williamsburgh on the
5th of may our Regt was there but orey 3 copanys ingage in the battle Co.
B.G.R.[K.?] Williamson Brookses [?] Woods but we were closet enough to se a
good eal of it and for the [boom?] and ___________ some few of our men were
killed there were 2O kill and wonded None of some our co we have march in mud
day after day over our shoes some times half by deys [?], with nothing to eat
our Regt never __ was soldiers until we went To york town there we work night
& day and left it all with the yanks but I have stood it verry well so far
but I had to throw a way every thing I had except what I had on an one Blanket
which was the case with all. We have verry warm days here but the night are
verry cold I have been with Bro G.W. Since I heard from you we have been close
together for some tim until [?] now I recond that he is around here some where
George look as well as I ever saw him so does John Trammell moor [more] boys
Bill Bee [G.W. Beeland] Rady Slaughter
all look well
Bro I
have no news to write only hard times you mus tell Rolly [?] to write soon an
you must do the same as I am verry anctious to hear from you all tell Rolly I
will write to him soon give my best love Sally and children the same to self
and family write soon to me at Richmond Va no more your Bro until ded [?]
J.M.
Ross