Spring Hospital near
			Sharpsburgh M.d
		       Thursday, Oct, 2nd /62

			Well Augustus
    		how are you today
I am pretty well myself and
as I have not recd any letters
yet since I left home I am
getting tired of doing all the
writing and not getting anything
for it you must excuse me
for not writing to you before
for I have bin so busy since
I came to the Hospital I don't 
find any time to write only
a few words at a time and
that is a [poor?] way for me
to write but I have written 
some letters since I have bin
here that I bet I got up

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you must excuse me for not stamping this for my stamps
                                                            are gone

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once for every line I wrote
to wait on the wounded it
is a hard place and if it was not
for Will I would not stay here
for any price we get, 25 cts per day
extra for Hospital duties our Regt
is about five nite's from here
in camp. I have bin away
from it since the battle of the
1th whare Will was wounded
we have bin in two very
heavy battles. the battle of
South Mountains & the one on
the 17th of Sept Oh you can't have
any idea what a sight it is to
pass over a battle field  and
see the dead I saw the rebs
at South Mountains whare they
lay so thick that you could 
walk all around on the dead
and in other places around
a stone fence whare they lay
three & four deep whare our boys 

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write all the news about Eddy and tell me whare to direct so I can write

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charged on them and gained the
ground, our 17th Mich did noble work
at the Sunday fight. I have bin
up to the Regt once since I left
and found E.M. Havey. & the boys
all right but did not have a chance
to talk with them much for they
wer ready to march when I got there
well I shall have to finish this
some other time, Friday 3 o,clock A.m
well Augustus I will try to finish 
this, this morning I got up at
one o,clock and I have just come
in from milking my milking [illegible in original]
comes in the night the old man
that owns this house keeps 12
cows and sells milk to the boys
he charges ten cts a quart and so
the boys go out in the night
and help themselves I only got
30.cts worth enough for a good breakfast
well it is most time to go to wash and I
must close tell Mr Shaw that will is doing 
first rate he is gaining fast   Yours truly   Good Bye
you must write all the news                      B.F. Marsh  
you can think of and I will write again as soon as I get time