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In the woods in Va some whare I dont know whare, said to be 5 miles from Warenton
Dear Wife Saturday Nov 8 1862
...started early in the morning and marched about 15 miles and camped our
rout was over the bull run battle field, twice rended by the defeat of the
union forces, evidences of those sanguinary conflicts were plenty on every
side in the shape of broken down artilery waggons broken muskets cannon shot
musket balls with an ocasional skull numberless graves out of some of which
portions of limbs or skulls protruded, such sights to the fledged soldier
wer rather calculated to dampen the ardor of his profession...
John C Griswold