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Regiment: 6th Michigan Infantry
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Historical Figures: Nathaniel P. Banks
Port Hudson May 21 1864
Dir parints a gan I rit you a
few lins to let you no that I am yet
a live but not very well but hapin
this few lines may find you all well
I have ben her a bot to weeks and hav
[ ? ]
had a leter from
[ ? ] yet I have
[ ? ]
my money and shal send it to day
to you by expres to
[ ? ] and
johnson I droll sixty dolars and I
wil send you fifty and you
can let Charlotte have it and
she can pay
[ ? ] she dont
want to
[ ? ] I want she shod have
what she wants to live on for I
will
[ ? ] a gan the first of july
and then I will send mor you
nednt be a frad a bot them
nots for I will pay them before
tha ar do and I will I make it
all rit with you for your truble
[ ? ] Cooke is in the hospitl bot
I think he will be out a gan in a
few days I think homesick what
als him he didnt git his mony
tha is somehe not rit a bot it
but he may get it next pay day
I tell you it is hot her
[ ? ]
[ ? ] in the morning a bot a
nor and are in the evning I
[ ? ]
we will stay her til the rear is
[ ? ] and than the nigrs will gard
this plas bankes has
[ ? ] out
the rebls up
[ ? ]
kild and burnt evething he has
com to for three hundrd
[ ? ] he
[ ? ] he dont want
only thre das mor to finish
[ ? ] rivr up
[ ? ] Clarke
will send fifty dolars with
me in the sam pakige so wen
you in quier for the pakig you
can
[ ? ] for on hondrd dolars
you can give it to his father
from your son Marquis L. Baker
to it
[ ? ] I will
rit a gan in a few da I want [rest chewed away]
