Charles Roberts to Maggie Roberts (6 August 1864)

              Head Qu QM Dept Strahls Brigade
nr Atlanta, Geo., Augt 6th 1864
My darling wife,
Yesterday Evening I rejoiced at receiving two
letters from  you of the 10th and 17th ulto. Since my last letter to you
I have been on a perpetual move and am at present any
thing but settled, for we are now camped close to Atlanta and 
within shelling distance of the enemy’s guns. Some bright morn-
ing I expect they will disturb our peaceful slumbers by throwing
a few shells into our camp. Just after writing my last letter
to you from Fayetteville, we received orders to take all our
baggage wagons and proceed to Griffin Geo (on the Macon
RR, 40 miles from Atlanta) and store any baggage and 
send the wagons to West Point, Geo to haul at the break
in the RR – We left part of our wagons, which had no baggage
in them, and our tents [j c]  at our camps and immediately
started for Griffin, where I remained to take charge of the 
baggage of the Brigade. Maj Baylor returned to the camp at
Fayetteville and I sent my horse with his boy – he reached
camp that night at about 12o Clock and the next morning just
before day the Yankee Cavalry mad a raid on our camps and 
Maj Baylor lost his and my horse, also all his clothing – They captured 
quite a number of [mules] and destroyed some fifty or sixty wagons 
fortunately our camps were somewhat off the road and Strahls 
Brig only lost a couple of mules and some clothing and [papers] – 
Maj Baylor lost most of his clothing – I lost nothing but my horse
saddle and bridle which were goverment property and only
 put me to the inconvenience of being dismounted for the present."
The following day the raid struck the RR above Griffin
and [was] expected at Griffin by night – I packed my most
valuable papers in my carpet sack and [then] fortified myself
with a good dinner at the Hotel and calmly waited “coming