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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
Benton Barracks
St. Louis, Mo. Dec the 27 1861
Far distant friend I now
sit down to answer it
for I have not been able to
answer it before I have been very
sick since
you the time you past
[ ? ]
that and am just able to get around
I recieved your picture after a long delay
[ ? ] the letter over in the third regiment
and as soon as I got it I sit down to
answer it allways like to hear from friends
Missouri is a nice place but I guess
that they will have all the fighting
done before they get us armed I have
no arms of any discripsion and don’t drill
[ ? ]
guess that they don’t calculate to keep us
long by the rumor that the coh
sail the other day that they hat
mare men now than they
could
knew what to do with and if we wer
armed before the to of January we would
be sent home and I don’t care if they don’t
to anything about the arms for I want
to see all Michigan and ware don’t never
mind the weather but get over double
trouble for we are in the land of secessive
I am a going to send my picture
as soon as I get able to go down
to the city I hat ought to have
played
[ ? ] about a week longer for
after I began to get before I
[ ? ]
that they had a fourlough all
male out to send me home
the mille of this if I had known
that I guess that I shoull
have gone home but I had not
here bout spoken a land worl for
5 weeks and when I spoke it make
me feel like a
[ ? ] man and then
I began to get beter and shall
soon be armed with the rest
of the boys and I don’t
care hard quick for I have
been sick for about six weeks
and I began to feel discouraged
but the weather is so nice that
I could not stay sick mutch longer
there is about 25 times as
many men here as there was at
grand rapids and there is three
camps
[ ? ] fourteen
[ ? ]
all
[ ? ] armed out
[ ? ] for
fight the union men have taken
thirteen hundred prisoners and they
have telegraphed to me
[ ? ]
to see what to do with them
I expect to come home next spring
for the fight is not a going to
last long for they are getting
Whipel out every peace that they
have a
[ ? ] trial
and the troops keep
coming in all the whill
to give general price same
and he will get enough
if he tries to take
St. Louis you
must excuse
the various
little suspects that
I have chosen to
write for my
[ ? ]
[ ? ] that way
D to camp Benton
St. MO
2 Mich Cavalry
Co. G
[ ? ]
Your Friend
Leroy Allen
