“Camp on the Battlefield, Va.” is the heading on this letter by T. W. G. Inglet.  Inglet was from Spalding County, Georgia and was in Company C of the 28th Georgia Infantry.  At the battle of Cold Harbor 6/27/62, Inglet got shot in the left hand and had two fingers amputated.  A few months after writing this letter, he would be wounded again in the right foot at Darbytown Road, Va.

Before fighting in the Wilderness and at Petersburg, the 28th Georgia had fought at Olustee, Florida.  Our letter is written in nice dark ink and is on blue-grey stationary.  Inglet is writing to his wife, Mattie.  The content is excellent. 

·         “…We have had 3 or four little fights since we come here.  We had one last Friday and
our boys run into the Yankees works and we killed one and other with the buts of our guns
 some of the Yankees got some of our boys by the hair of the head and we would shoot them
loose.  We lost twenty five or thirty of our regt.  We lost one out of our company.  It was our
 artillery that broke his thigh and then one of the Yankees ran up and says to Bob I will
finish you God damn you and shot him again in the side but that did not kill him dead but
is supposed to be dead now.  Capt. Wood of Co. A got seven balls shot through his thigh.  He
 died and his brother and one of the company started out with him and they both got shot. 
We are in two hundred yards of the Yanks and we make them lay low and they make us lay
 low too.  One of the Sharp Shooters shot at me and the ball cut in four inches of me.  I swap
 some shots with them when our men will let me get out of the pits…”