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New Orleans Nov. 2nd Dear loved ones at Home I suppose you will have heard of the axcident on the Opolouses and N.O. R.R. ere you receive this. I was on the train, and escaped injury, with the exception of a slight sprain in my right hip, but that is not worth speaking about for I do not believe there is twenty men in the Regiment but what are as bad as I am. There were nine killed immediately, and three have died since sixty five sent to the Hospital seriously wounded, and about fifty more strained so that they are not fit for duty. Our Company suffered as little as any Company in the Regiment, our wounded were D. Stanton right wrist joint and badly cut back Stillwell wrist dislocated John Wyant several teeth knocked in, and three others that are