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Regiment: 16th Michigan Infantry
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[Eagle on shield]
E Pluribus Unum
Camp on the potomac Monday
Creek Near March
Fallmouth
My dear parent virginia The 9th 1863
i have just recieved your
kind letter and i was
glad to hear from you once
more and to hear that you
and all the rest of the family
were enjoying good health and i hope that
these few lines will find you still enjoy
ing the same blessing as they leave me at
presant time i am sory to hear that grand
father is so ill but i supose that if it
his time to go he must for it is just as
natural for a man to leave the world as
it is for him to come into it i have not
Strange news to give you this time
only that i think that the army
under hooker is going to stay in front
of fredricksburg this sumer and i hope
we will the 9
th Army core and 6
th army
and the 11
th army corps is under
marching orders the 9
th army corps
has gone to news port news but their
destination is north carlinia and
i hear that the 11
th army corps
under general Seigal is bound for
the penensular and the 6
th army
corps i dont know whare they are
going to and if they leave us
here to play Mcdowell this sumer
we will have a good time of it and i hope
they will the men are building forts
here and it looks like as if we were a
going to stay here the weather is very
fine here and it begins to look like
spring here i have been over to
henery berdell and got the can of honey
that you sent me in his box you
spoke of comeing down here i wish
you would for i would be very glad
to see you in dixie land and so
you could have a chance to see how we
live down here it will do you good
come down here major barry and captain
elliott of this regiment with some
others oficers of different regiments and
about 30 noncomishiond oficers started
from dtroit two weeks ago with 90 drafted
men but when they came to washington
they only had 30 the rest having deserted
along the route i recieved a letter from
uncle Charley and he says that they have
taken ed caul from the 9
th Michigan
Cavellry when you write again i want
to tell me all about it so now i will
close by biding you good bye for this
time remember me to all inquireing
friends i shall send a little book in
in this letter and you must give it
to ellen Jane so no more at present
From your Affectionate son
Chancy Bunyea
to Beloved father and
Mother
[On Envelope:]
Mr John Bunyea
Wayne PO
Wayne Co
Mich
