"I am going to Washington next Saturday and I am going to see about Enlisting with the Regular Army or some Cavalry Regt. I am sick of staying here. It is one thing over and over again. I like more excitement. "
"After I got here I was put on duty for a day or two as the nurses were sent into the defenses to repel the rebel raiders and the sick had to take care of the sick."
"We arrived at Spotsylvania on the morning an (sic) the afternoon of the19th we received(?) our fire and in the battle on that(?) we lost some 200 of our men. I was wounded near the close of the battle in the right thigh by a Minnie rifle ball and was carried to the rear. "
