Headquarters 18th Regt, Wis Vol 
   (1862 
      Camp near Corinth Miss Oct 13th 
         Dear Brother & Sister 
I once more Sit down to write you a line 
to let you know that I am in tolerable good 
Health and hope this will find you all well 
I Rec,d your letter a few days ago bearing date 
of Sept 29th and was verry glad to hear from 
you all once more I would have answered 
it before now but I have had no chance to 
write untill now; we have been Marching 
         laying in line of Battle 
or fighting ^ or laying on our arms day and 
night from the first of this month to [the?] 
Twelfth So you can Judge whether I [have had?] 
time to write mutch or not: I Supose [you?] 
have heard that we had a fight at Corinth 
Before this time; it was fought on the 3rd 
& 4th of this month and we whiped the 
Rebels a little the nicest they have ever 
been cleaned out yet though it took some 
hard fighting to do it we had to fight 
the combined forces of the Rebels Since 

[illegible] and Van Dorn; they greatly 
out numbered the forces that we had here 
the fighting commenced on the 3rd about Six 
miles west of Town Our Brigade commenced 
the fight with the Enemy as they was out 
there gurading against a Surprise as we was 
looking for them; we would take a position 
and when the Enemys advance come up we 
would fire into them and hold them in check 
until the main Rebel force come up and 
then we would Retreat Back towards town and  
take another position; we kept on in that 
way untill about the middle of the afternoon 
[when?] we had Retreated back within about 
[page torn] miles of Corinth where two Division of  
[page torn] forces was drawn up in line of Battle 
when a general fight Ensued lasting untill 
night; being largely out numbered we had 
to give way to them in the open woods but 
hotly contesting every inch of ground 
at night all of our forces was Drawn inside 
of our forts; after night the Rebels got a 
position within half a mile of Town and 
Built a fort and at daylight in the morning 
they commenced Shelling the Town 
from their new fort. But they did not 
have time to do mutch Damage before our 
our Siege Gun fort got Range on them and 
                                fort 
Silanced their [crossed out] [illegible] and Run them from 
their guns and [crossed out] [illegible] we captured their pieces, 
Skirmishing was Kept up untill about, 10, 
Oclock when the Rebels made two charges 
on the town; one on the North and the Other 
on the North west Side; both at the Same time 
which lasted about 4 hours our Batteries 
and Infantry Repulsing Every charge that 
the Rebels made and after they got Terribally 
mown down and cut up the Rebels ceased 
firing and commenced a Retreat about ,2,O 
clock leaving the field litterally Strewn 
with their dead and wounded; We follow 
ed them the next morning before daylight 
we threw out Skirmishers through the 
woods and picked up quite a number of 
their Straglers and about noon on Sunday 
we Run the main Rebel force into General 
Hurlbarts Division on the Hatchie River being 
on his Road from Bolivar to Corinth 
Hurlbert had a head fight with them whiping 
their whole force with Six Thousand men 
and taking Eleven pieces of Artillery; we kept 
kept on after them until we took all their 
Artillery but one piece and the most of their 
Trains and Amunition by the time we got 
         a distance of 45 miles 
to Ripley ^ [crossed out] [illegible] we had them So mutch Scattered 
[crossed out] [that] that it was useless to follow them 
further; So we give up the chase and come back 
to Corinth again; Our Reg was in the fight the 
first day but we was on the Reserve the 2nd  
and was not Immediately in the Engagement 
Our Reg,t [crossed out] [was] lost about forty men Killed 
wounded and missing; Our company had 
two wounded none Killed or missing; our Reg 
now musters about one hundred fighting 
men. I had letters from Isaac and Mother 
Ingersolls folks and my wife lately they all wrote 
they were well I have So many letters to answer 
or I would write you more this time So I must 
close for the present write Soon Direct as 
before			Thos.J.Davis 
To G.W. & E. Ditto