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Regiment: 16th Michigan Infantry
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[Image of Burnside]
Burnside
Camp Widewake
Near hamden Virginia
Dear father and mother
i now sit down to write
you a few lines to let
you know that i am
well at present and
hope these few lines
will find you all the
same we was a week
and one Day a coming
hear we hade a first
rate time of it and i
liket i first rate i found
all the Boyes all right
and harty they had
moved about two hundred
miles from hall hill
we have not got much
company hear now onley
about two hundred
thousand and you
know that amt mich
no more at preset
Direct your letters
to Washington DC
to Co Stockton
regment Co H
