Written at Winchester, Virginia. Coleman discusses the Battle of Antietam and caring for wounded.
"....But the hottest battle of the war was fought near Sharpsburg Md on the 17th inst. The battle lasted all day and the loss was terrific on both sides, the enemy fighting with more desperation than ever before. We call it a victory and the Yankees did so at first too; we held the ground and both sides were too much worsted to renew the fight next day. We fell back across the Potomac and the enemy then commenced shelling us and boasted that they had driven us across. They acknowledge the loss of sixteen generals. We had two generals killed and ten wounded. Winchester has been perfectly crowded with the wounded---there having been more than 3000 here at one time and continually passing through. The N. Y. Tribune says if we had followed them, their army wd have been annihilated, and Gen. Lee says he could have done so with 5000 more fresh troops. But men had been marched so much and were so broken down, that we had 60,000 stragglers...."

Written at Winchester, Virginia. Coleman discusses hospitals and care of wounded, General George Steuart, movement of Longstreet's Corps, and other troop activity in the area.
"....I have had my hands full ever since, for upon arriving here I was assigned to the charge of two Hospitals--the N. S. P. Church and Lovett House Hospitals, containing more than one hundred sick and wounded, and a great many very bad cases. But although I have been until the last few days so busily engaged, I have only lost five patients out of one hundred and eighty treated, while other hospitals have lost a much greater proportion. Dr. McGuire told me that he lost fourteen patients on night before last at the Union Hospital! There are not more than one thousand sick here now...."

Written from Jerdone Castle, Louisa County, Virginia. A discussion of their mother's death.
"...reached home on Wednesday in time to be present at the burial....She was so anxious to see her children before she died. But it is said that everything happens for the best and we should bear everything with an even resignation."