Sept 19th/62 Dear Mother
I am still alive and well Our Regt was engaged on last Sunday for 3 or 4 hours on the Mountains. but our loss was not very heavy on Tuesday last we were engaged twice and lost heavy General Reno was killed on Sunday we were in his Division and he thought the world of our Regt we went into the fight on Sunday afternoon about 5½ O Clock and took the advance and was under a heavy fire until about 9 O Clock when the fireing ceased and we lay down on the field and stayed all night
I cannot write more now as the mail goes I did not get hit at all
G W Whitman