Near Acworth GA
June the 7 /64
Dear Wife
As there is a mail goes this eve I will write a fiew lines to let you know that I am alive and well. We have done some marching and fighting since I last wrote. The rebels are retreating. We drove them from a strong position at Dallas. I guess they will make a stand at Maryetta which is ten miles from where we now are. It is betweene twenty and thirty miles from here to Atlanty. We left the railroad at Cassville and came to it again at Acworth. The battle of Dallas lasted nine days. We was verry luckey. Our regt lost but fiew men. We croosed the Alltonia River yesterday. This is a very fine country. We have had a great deal of rain the past weak. We got a mail last evening and one to day but no letters for me. The last letter I got was mailed the 14th of May. I dont see why a dont get a letter. I have writen five since we left Stevenson. I saw a paper to day with a list of the killed and wounded of the 109th. I see Jacobs name among the killed. It dont seam posible but it must be so. I wish they had staid on the road this sumer. Poor Sanford he will miss his pa verry much. There has ben terable slautering done in Virginia this sumer but Grant ceeps driving them and gaining ground all the while but it costs a great meney lives. We flank the rebs here and rout them without doing verry hard fighting and I am glad of it. I was verry much disappointed not getting a letter to day. There must be a back mail. I know you have writen. I know you are haveing a great deal of troubel about me. I suppose mother is about dead with troubel. I hope it will be my luck to come out of this terable war safe and sound. I have ben verry luckey so far. You say you dont get your paper. I spoke to Kipp about it. He sead he would write to Chase and see why he dont send it. I wish we would get pay so I could send you some money. I know you nead some but we wont get pay untill after the campaign. I hope I will soone get a letter. I want to hear from you verry much. I want to know how you are getting along. If I could but see you for one day I could tell you more than I can write in a weak. I shall have to close for this time. The mail goes in a fiew minuets. We expect to stay here a fiew days and I will write again in a day or two. I never wanted a letter as bad as I do now. Write often. Good buy.
Charles Engle