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4 secesh. This was about 1 mile beyond Lawrenceberg and we just cleaned the rebels out. The Capt was with our gun, it being the only one present at this Skirmish. He devoted his entire attention to it. You had ought to have seen him as he dismounted from his horse, smoking his pipe, very leisurely sighted our gun and gave the command - [Fire?] - the Shell went right among them. And the way they skidaddaled was a caution. The next morning no 2 gun was ordered to accompany a force of cavalry in a scouting expedition at about 2 o'clock they returned at 3 o'clock pm having travelled 12 miles and back and doing some execution. They shelled the rebels out of the woods, and captured, aided by the cavalry, 105 prisoners, and took 1 6 [pd?] gun. Together with a number of muskets. We kept the gun with us till the other day, when the captain disposed of it in some way. Our Capt is a tip-top man, and the way he lets us live is a caution.

  Were we to live on our government rations, we could not brag but to let you know we don't , I will tell you a day's rations we gobbled