just across the border in one of the last lead them into the battlefield and he helped general george tomas and after the battle in the late summer of 1863 he was pretty much done with the war. he went home and he was pretty sick and went home for the remainder of the year and he was rejoined in early 1864 and about halfway through the water he was pretty much done. then he did receive a promotion through the general at that time. but most of what he accomplished he did as a colonel. in this letter he writes in kentucky and january 18, 1862, he writes that, my dear wife. i have not right into you for a long time because i've been sick with pneumonia. i expect by monday to resume work. no prospects for an advance on the enemy. our men are sick and this is the unhealthiest chance i have ever seen. and so you see a soldier and an officer writing home during the war and it was a war that he enlisted in and it's such a good historical account and the triumphs of a hat. but it was a hard life and a lot of people don't realize that there are casualties in this award and they certainly experienced