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Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863

12_1863-09-28-Page 04

visit from Gen Bragg, and the longer he defers that visit the better will we be prepared to give him a warm reception. From the evening of the 21st to the evening of the 26th our Regt was useing the pick and shovel day and night without intermission, and no rest for any one for more than [3?] hours at a time and the whole army was doing just like us and most of them are at it still. Mr. Bragg is he takes Chattanooga will have to bring at last 5 men to our one and even then I do not believe he can whip us. On Friday night and again on last night (Sunday) at 11 oclock he made a night attack on a portion of our lines to try to get certain positions but in both cases he was handsomely repulsed. Perhaps before this reaches you the battle of Chattanooga will be fought. And maybe not for weeks. It looks like they ware going to besiege us but if they do that they will first have to cut off our line of supplies to the rear and that they will find to be a hard job. If we are attacked here I do not think our Regt. will be engaged unless we are likely to be overpowerd and if that should be the case evry man will be put to use and I will make this prediction that if we are [illegible] at all it will be the warmest place that we ever have been in yet. I forgot to say that Gen. Adams and 13000 of his men ware captured on Sunday. It was his Brigade that was pitted against the 15 at Stones River and out of which we captured so many prisoners. He appears to be unlucky when he runs against Tom Woods boys. Cap McCling had one man killed (Morris Williams) and 6 or 8 wounded mostly slight wounds and [two run?] out of his company.

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visit from Gen Bragg, and the longer he defers that visit the better will we be prepared to give him a warm reception. From the evening of the 21st to the evening of the 26th our Regt was useing the pick and shovel day and night without intermission, and no rest for any one for more than [3?] hours at a time and the whole army was doing just like us and most of them are at it still. Mr. Bragg is he takes Chattanooga will have to bring at last 5 men to our one and even then I do not believe he can whip us. On Friday night and again on last night (Sunday) at 11 oclock he made a night attack on a portion of our lines to try to get certain positions but in both cases he was handsomely repulsed. Perhaps before this reaches you the battle of Chattanooga will be fought. And maybe not for weeks. It looks like they ware going to besiege us but if they do that they will first have to cut off our line of supplies to the rear and that they will find to be a hard job. If we are attacked here I do not think our Regt. will be engaged unless we are likely to be overpowerd and if that should be the case evry man will be put to use and I will make this prediction that if we are [illegible] at all it will be the warmest place that we ever have been in yet. I forgot to say that Gen. Adams and 13000 of his men ware captured on Sunday. It was his Brigade that was pitted against the 15 at Stones River and out of which we captured so many prisoners. He appears to be unlucky when he runs against Tom Woods boys. Cap McCling had one man killed (Morris Williams) and 6 or 8 wounded mostly slight wounds and [two run?] out of his company.