Mentions a journey to Mississippi. Describes an incident with the 7th Kansas Infantry in which the captain killed two of his men and then was killed himself. Transcription: Moscow Team January the 9th / 62[1863] Dear Brother I Seat my self to let you Know that I still am on the go yet and that prety hard as the last letter that I rote to you I Believe that wee was near Coffeevill[Coffeeville] Missippi[Mississippi] the Rebel covelry took a flank move on us and got a round Behind us Before wee knew they was at holy Springs and took it Before wee got wind of them But wee whealed back Riding knig
Mentions a journey to Mississippi. Describes an incident with the 7th Kansas Infantry in which the captain killed two of his men and then was killed himself. Transcription: Moscow Team January the 9th / 62[1863] Dear Brother I Seat my self to let you Know that I still am on the go yet and that prety hard as the last letter that I rote to you I Believe that wee was near Coffeevill[Coffeeville] Missippi[Mississippi] the Rebel covelry took a flank move on us and got a round Behind us Before wee knew they was at holy Springs and took it Before wee got wind of them But wee whealed back Riding knight and day to over take them before they Don any more damage than they had wee got Back in tennissee[Tennessee] just time to save Boliver[Bolivar] Riding the Distance of 130 miles in 36 hours m with one fead and no Sleap or rest for man or horse they got wind of us and left for Mississippi as fast as there horses could take them and us after them wee followed them through Ripley and Newalbany[New Albany] on the pontitock[Pontotoc] Road runing east of the road that we went down on some fifty miles then wee left them to shift there coarse as it Suited them and then we turned Back to holly springs got there on the 30th and musterd for pay on the 31st and on the 1st of January 1863 Started for tennissee[Tennessee] arived at Moscow the second hearind that there was 12 hundred Rebell cavelry in Somervill[Somerville] the county seat of Fayett[Fayette] County wee kept right on and arived there on the third But finding But very fiew of them it was a very light job for us and wee cleard out the town in short meter as I have not mentioned the crowd that I have Been Riting a Bout I will say that the 4th Ills and the 7th Canses[Kansas] is together here the 6th Ills and 2nd Ioway[Iowa] was with us on the chase after the cavelry that took holly springs I will just stay Say that the canses[Kansas] boys in somervill[Somerville] Being So Disapointed at finding no rebels that they had to take a l
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