The Bedingfield Family civil war letters in the manuscript collection at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville are interesting and entertaining. John Y. Bedingfield of Company G, 60th Georgia missed the Gettysburg campaign, but wrote about that battle to his father from Richmond on 20 July 1863: "...I have seen Lt. Ben Gleaton [Co. F, 59th Ga] in hospital. His regiment, the 59th,was also in the battle of Gettysburg on the third of this month. On that day Sim Theus [Sgt Simeon B. Theus of Co. F, 59th Ga] was badly wounded. His left knee was completely shattered by a minie ball and his left leg was amputated some four inches above the knee. He was left and fell into the hands of the enemy ... I leave for the army tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock. I shall go from here to Staunton and from there to Winchester." From the camp of Gordon's brigade, he wrote to his mother on 4 August 1863, "... I am sitting on a knapsack with my back against a white oak tree [about] 15 miles northeast of Orange Court House, 10 miles southeast of Culpeper Court House, five miles east of the railroad." He writes of what the brigade was able to procure while in Pennsylvania: "butter 10 cents, chickens 10 cents, sugar 40 cents, coffee 40 cents, whiskey 75 cents a gallon in Confederate money." The soldiers saw how the people "live much better than our people do in the best of times" and the men became discouraged when they observed how little the war seemed to have affected that region.