Camp near Sharpsburg, MD Sunday Sept the 28th/ 62

Dear Brother

I now seat my self to let you know that we ar yet amoung the living and are in good health. I supose you have herd all about the battle so it is usless for me to tell it over. I have been in seven battles but this was the hardest of them all. Cannon balls (illegible) shells and rifle balls apeared to strike in every spot whare I did not stand and men fell all around me I was about 10 rods from our general when he fell our division fought in a cornfield but after the fight was over you could not tell whether it was a cornfield as hog yard for the ground was covered with rebels you can judg for your self how they mus of fell when we had 4 bateryes firing grade and canister in to them all at once and this only one Division and many others dooing the same work. No pen nor tongue can holy tell the horrors of such a scene whare the ded only lay strewed over the field but in some cases they lay in piles 3 & 4 deap. Thes spots ar whare they charged on baterys and in all directions you could here the groans of the wounded. Edwin if you will do us the favor of seeing to the trouble of buying us 3 dollars worth of Gren Tea. 1 good (illegible) thus and if the folks feel so disposed they can send some buter and sent them to us we will pay you out of the money that father has got of ours pleas oblige us by sending the above mentioned articles amediateley by express direct to.

M. C. French
Hagerstown Md.
Batery F. 1st Reg Pa Ar
Rickets Division.

Send a bill of thes articals and the freight.