Letter written by Henry Welch, corporal in the 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company K, to his brother from Carrsville?, Georgia, May 20, 1864

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PAGE IMAGECassvilleGa. (Georgia) (Cassville, Georgia)   May 20th -64Dear Brother

I have just time to write
a word or so and I am
thankful to say that I am
still well safe and sound
Philo (Philo) Richard (Richard) Elet [__] ([__]) Martin (Martin)
and all the boy's from
Hebron (Hebron, New York) are all well
and safe so far we had
another fight yesterday
we drove the rebs three
miles they made quite a
stand at the place about
four o'clock but we drove
them and now have
posession of the town
it is about the size of
Granville cornner's (Corners) (Granville Corners, New York) our
reg't was very lucky we
try supporting lottery
we were under heavy
fireing (firing) but they shot

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PAGE IMAGE [ [__] ] [ [__] ] [?? mo]stly
[t]here [ [__] ] [ [__] ]
men wounded i[ [__] ]
reg't [on?] [at] [they?] not severly (severely)
tell Sarah (Sarah) Susan (Susan) [and?]
the rest of the [folks?]
that I have received
letters from them all
but cant get time to
answer them so dont
wait but write again
and I will make it up
when this campaign is
over please write my
love to all good bye

from your Brother Henry Welch (Welch, Henry) PS.

I will send you some
rebel papers that I got
last night with this
inside
Henry (Welch, Henry)