I. D. Affleck Letter to Parents

Camp near JacintoMiss.
April 30th/'62

Having a chance to send a letter home, by a gentleman from Texana, who leaves here in the morning, I will finish my letter now. We left our last camp this morning about eight o'clock, and only came about nine miles, and camped. We are ordered to Decater and from there we will go up into middle tenn. They had a fight up there two or three days ago, between some of Morgans cavelry and about three thousand Yankeys, we whiped a[nd] tooke forty or fifty of them. I saw a man that was in the fight, and he says that if it had not been for their cannon they would have taken every one of them. Our pickets near Corinth have scirmishes every day, and two days ago they had a hard fight, and I heard we lost a good maney, but we whiped them badly.

If I go up into Tenn—I will be able to get a good horse by pressing him into service. There are very fiew of the men in the regiment sick[;] nearly all are at the Hospital where I never will go[.] if I get sick I will go to some of my relatives untill I get well. . . .

[I. D. Affleck]

Affleck, Isaac D., "With Terry's Texas Rangers: The Letters of Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, Civil War History, Vol. 9, Sept. 1963, pp. 299-319.