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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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December 10, 1864
Camp near Nashville, Tenn.
Dear companion,
I again write a few lines to you to let you know I am not under the sod yet
although I am not very well at present. Yesterday morning I was taken with the
ague. I had a good shake for about one hour and a half. Then I had a fever a short
time. After that I was cold. I did not get warm until I went to my bed in the evening.
The rheumatitus bothered me all night. Today I feel very well except a hard cough.
The talk is we shall go into town and do provost duty. That is police duty. We
shall not go in to the front yet. I have written to mother today and I wrote to Hawkes
today for Mose. Everything remains about the same in the front. They are constantly
throwing shells along the lines yesterday.
Today has been very cold and the ground is covered with snow. I have not
received any letters from you except the one you wrote while you were down to
mothers. I will finish this when I have a better time.
December 11th. My love I feel a great deal better today although I have coughed all
night. Stephen Root (Co. G) is very sick with the Lung Fever. He is at present in my
tent. Tomorrow he will go to the hospital. I may go with him there. The sun shines
today but the wind blows from the northwest as cold as I ever saw it in Michigan.
We can hear the booming of cannon today to let us know the work of death is still
going on.
January 2nd. Dear wife, I take my pen in hand to finish the letter I began before I
was taken sick. At the time I was taken sick on the 10th of December I got a letter
from you Christmas morning. Then I could not sit up so I could not answer it. I got a
note from you New Year’s morning– that was yesterday morning. Then I wrote a
few lines to you. We had a good dinner yesterday got up by the Christian
Commission and by the officers of the hospital here. We had bread and butter,
mashed potatoes, cabbage, cooked onions, tomatoes, turkeys, chicken, ribs, pies,
preserves, apples, candies and a great many other things I cannot think of now. The
dinner for the sick cost four hundred dollars. Good bye. God bless you and the
children. I will try and write often now I can set up again.
