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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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January 19, 1865
General Hospital Number 2, Section 6, Tent 5
Abby darling,
I am thinking of you tonight and I am very lonely now. I am in the hospital I was when I last wrote to you and I don’t know how long I will be here. If we get our pay tomorrow I will not stay here long. The story is our regiment has been ordered from east post in Mississippi to City Point in Virginia. If they go here I will probably go there in a short time for I think it is a healthier place or me. I don’t intend to join my regiment there if I go there. I have had enough of that. I am getting along slowly now. I have got a hard cough now and it keeps my stomach weak all the time so I can not eat the rations I get. I cannot keep it down. I get a little bread and taste it and make a cup of tea and drink it. And that is all I can eat and keep down. That and the coughing is all that makes me stay in the hospital. I had some good dreams last night. I will not tell you what it was. I have got tired of staying away from my darling and I will be glad when this war stops so I can once more come back to the bed I left behind me. Everything looks well and favorable at present. Our armies are victorious all over the country and are gaining ground all the time. I think we shall be home before our time is out. I will stop until another time.
Darling, it is Saturday again and rained some today. It has been nice weather since I wrote to you before. We will have probably one or two weeks of rainy weather and then it will be warm again.
It is Sunday today. I feel lonesome very today. I am not any better of my cough yet. I do not know how long I will stay here but it will not be long. I do not think you had better write me again until I write you where to direct your letters to. I will write every week to you and let you know where I am and how I am getting along.
It is sure our Regiment had gone to Savannah by way of New York. They will go by sea. They started for East Port and got mostly there and was ordered to Virginia. But they have gone to Savannah in North Carolina on the sea coast. I think if I get down there, the sea breeze would cure my cough. I may stay here but I don’t know yet. When I find out I will let you know right off so you can write to me. You will write before you get this but do not write again for if I leave here I will not get them all, I hope to get in a better place than I am in at the present.
Darling, I wish I could see you today and be with you tonight — but I do not expect to have that privilege right off. Dear Amy, I must say good bye. This is from your husband and one that loves you as well as life.
