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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
Franklin Tennesee
Sept. 18. 1864.
Helow pop
[ ? ] do you
you old horse receised that
even
[ ? ] letter of yours and
right glad I was to see that
ya are so well and I hope that
your health will continue to be
good as long as this war last and
I am right glad to hear that you
have got something out of
[ ? ]
but about that house I think
ther
he was mistaken about it being
old for it was built after I
[ ? ]
rember for I am rember of
[ ? ]
-ering an they drey when the
dray man was a hawling this
brick and it was a
[ ? ] story at
that and I think that if it were
worth three hundred dolars
then it is worth three thousand
now don’t you think so but
find out all that you can and
send it to me and I will make
it all night I should like for
you to see about that bounty of
pcs. and if we cant get night off
why maby it will
[ ? ] good when
it does come about them blankets
I will do all that I can to get them
for you but maby I cant get
the Chang to express then but
I think that I can tell you
in my next but I think I
shall have to pay 11 dolars for
an ever
[ ? ] and and the blankets
are about four dolars but I will
do the best that I can we have
five days down here but
[ ? ]
cold nights and it has rained
2 days out of 16 and that if
we have been escorting old
wheeler though Tennesee and we
left him safe on the other side
of the Tennese river and we kept
a fighting them for 12 days and
part of the time 2 all that we
had was bull beef and muten
now what do you think about
that but we are in camp now and
Altanta is ours and I think there this
war will soon be closed and the
rebels say that they can whip us
in 60 days but I cant see it
from where I sit
[ ? ] & ya but i
think that one year will see peas
all over this land of ours that we
are a contending for brave boys are
they, who steel 8 chickens every day
and when this
[ ? ] was is over
[ ? ]
are they who get drunk everyday
and lay down in the mid as
a time soldier of the U.S. Army
how is old Jeneys been
[ ? ]
and does then girls wear as big hoops
as ever and who made the bullets
the hall he be oh mother you may
(never press one to you heart again)
how is all of the neibhors about
there but youl not forget me another
if I’ve mumbered with the
[ ? ]
oh root boy or else got to the start
as soon as you are able and feed your
horde a big chuby the folks say that
I am crasy
[ ? ] I don’t believe
them but when I get sent I
[ ? ]
their smoke house meet
[ ? ] to
the time of yankee dooddle and
the women
[ ? ] like funy sent
I tell then to
[ ? ] for the
more they
[ ? ] the less they will
f——–spit but plese write often
and give my love to Sarah and
her man that is if he haint a Cop
perhead but if her’s I don’t want
anything to do with him old abe is
for I can
[ ? ] all copperheads.
the man my
[ ? ]
and your self and Ellen I am
as every yours
[ ? ]
and loving Nephew
George W. Fullington
To his
[ ? ] Uncle Prosper
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