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1862-09-28 Charles A. Gates to Mr. Arad Gates Page 3
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cut them to pieces and horised them. The 20th was a day of rest to our Corps. We fell back to where the battle comenced and camped and unharnessed our Horses the first time in 14, days. All day long we had a chance to look over the Battle field such sights it was awful to see. There was a road run along on the hills where the rebs were stationed and it was wore down about 2, or 3 feet and formed a kind of trench for the rebs. This ditch was full of dead and wounded rebs and arms. Some place they were 2 deep. They all turn black as nigers most of them were shot through the heads in one place I saw a reb he had just bit the catrayge off and the end was in his mouth yet and the rest in his hand. I shall have to go an guard more soon Depo Nutting is here sept 30th, all well here this morning. Depo has gone from here a little while ago. He come up here to Harppery ferry sunday on a excursion train from Baltimore yest-day he was up here on Bolivar Heights and come along and asked some of the boys that were out what Battery this was. They told him the first thing we New of him he came in to the tent where we were writeing. He staid all night with us and slept on a soldiers bed he grunted a good deal about it during the night but came out straight in the morning. Now I will comence where I left off last night. The 22th we got orders to move here where we are now. We started early and got here about 2 oc in the afternoon. We came through the town of sharpsburg
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cut them to pieces and horised them. The 20th was a day of rest to our Corps. We fell back to where the battle comenced and camped and unharnessed our Horses the first time in 14, days. All day long we had a chance to look over the Battle field such sights it was awful to see. There was a road run along on the hills where the rebs were stationed and it was wore down about 2, or 3 feet and formed a kind of trench for the rebs. This ditch was full of dead and wounded rebs and arms. Some place they were 2 deep. They all turn black as nigers most of them were shot through the heads in one place I saw a reb he had just bit the catrayge off and the end was in his mouth yet and the rest in his hand. I shall have to go an guard more soon Depo Nutting is here sept 30th, all well here this morning. Depo has gone from here a little while ago. He come up here to Harppery ferry sunday on a excursion train from Baltimore yest-day he was up here on Bolivar Heights and come along and asked some of the boys that were out what Battery this was. They told him the first thing we New of him he came in to the tent where we were writeing. He staid all night with us and slept on a soldiers bed he grunted a good deal about it during the night but came out straight in the morning. Now I will comence where I left off last night. The 22th we got orders to move here where we are now. We started early and got here about 2 oc in the afternoon. We came through the town of sharpsburg
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