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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Kalamazoo Mich
June 6th 1865
Mrs. J. T. Bunn
I received
a letter from
[ ? ]
Campbell asking for
information in reg-
ard to your Husband Job.
T. Bunn. He was takin
prisoner with me +
went with me to and-
ersonville + from thare
to Vicksburg Miss.
from thare we
took the steamer
Sultana. I was on it
when the axident hapen-
ed
I mach I that is all.
I know about him
though I think he was
drownded in the river
for I was at Memph-
is for 2 or three days.
I did not see anythig
of him after + I
[ ? ] I
[ ? ]
[ ? ] if he had not
[ ? ] drown-
ed for I came through with
the men that was saved
to Camp Chase Ohio.
I saw all of them
but never have hurd
a word from him I
[ ? ] the CO Office
of the Regt. that would
[ ? ] the
[ ? ] place for
you to get his papers
as I am
[ ? ] a going to
the
[ ? ] are,
If you want his papers
write to Lt. A. G. Bu
[ ? ]
[ ? ]. Co. L. 1
st Mich
Eng. Washington D. C.
Th
[ ? ] I will do anythig
to help you that I can as
I respected him as a
soldier + a gentleman very much
Yours Truly,
J. E. Earle
Kalamazoo
Mich
I would have writen you but I did not remember your address
