To Mary From Milroy Undated

              Head Quarters Milroy’s Bgd.
 
		L’Auglais Fairfax Co. Va., 8 miles
 
		West Washington City. 

 
 
Dear Mary,

 
	I commenced writing you a  
long & connected letter several days ago in as 
to give you some idea of the terrible fighting & 
marching we have pass through since I  
last wrote you- but I am so constantly 
interrupted by marching orders to attend to 
other matters. We have been daily shifting 
our position & I did dispare of getting time to 
write you fully about the 7 different battles 
I have been in. I had hoped to get to finish my 
long letter tonight & tomorrow we had some 
assurances that the camp we moved to today 
would be occupied by us for some time to rest & 
reorganize our worn out & cut up troops but I 
have just now orders to prepare to march again 
I don’t know where. Know how uneasy you would 
be I have contrived to drop you a fast line to 
say that I am still well, in excellent health. 
I love it in the front in all our battles & escaped 
death. I don’t know how thousands of times, our 
great battles of the 29th & 30th ult. or the old 
Bull Run battle ground went most terrible I 
lost near 500 men out of my little Bgd. of 2000