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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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April 14 1863
Franklin Tenn
[ ? ] dears I write you
a few lines I received a
letter yesterday from you
and was glad to read it
I wrote to you a leter a few days ago
the day of the fight we expected a fight
the next day after
[ ? ] but they did
not
[ ? ] any more for a while I can
from picket yesterday and halve to
go to
[ ? ] again, evry other day
[ ? ], and the other day in
[ ? ]
we live varey good hear we halve
[ ? ] and
[ ? ]
and milk and butter and all of the nice thing
that you could think of you must halve
[ ? ]
[ ? ] you may sit
[ ? ] for
[ ? ]
that
[ ? ] do
[ ? ] me, you
[ ? ] think of me
when you
[ ? ] I am sorey that you can not
go to
[ ? ] but
[ ? ] to not
[ ? ]
[ ? ] I sent you a very nice
[ ? ]
and a
[ ? ] I thought that you would like
to halve somethings that came from the Rebbles
I took it from a strong rebles
[ ? ]
[ ? ] was in the army and they was
[ ? ] at us men thire and
[ ? ]
[ ? ] then it took that to remember
[ ? ]
by we go for a
[ ? ] and
[ ? ] the
[ ? ]
that we must a
[ ? ] if
[ ? ] that he
has
[ ? ] we make then ofer their
[ ? ]
we took for then our selfs and if we can
not find eny we will go somewhere
[ ? ]
and hunt till we find some
[ ? ]
for thins has
[ ? ] out
[ ? ] we cant
[ ? ] (we can git milk we will go
whare we see a negro milking and tell
him to git it
[ ? ] and put it in
our cantan and they dar not
[ ? ]
other wise and the folks will look
at us
[ ? ] in light, bin,
dar not say eny thing but what do we
car for them they are secesh and ar
doing all they anfer the rebly that is the way
if
[ ? ] can live every better
[ ? ]
we
[ ? ] evry thing thing
we came to that we did not want for
our self I am going to halve
[ ? ] share
if northern happens to
[ ? ] I halve the
[ ? ] will of our officer I and they
show we
[ ? ] when if it wasnot
the case I would be wached and cept
in
[ ? ] think that they show
[ ? ] and so they do and they
all ways halve, and I think I might
as well
[ ? ] as for others
you must write in
[ ? ] said
that you wanted to halve a letter
evry two weeks and I halve writing
that offen and if you do not wish to
receave them so ofen you can tell me
so and I will hold up for a while
write if the letter came with a
[ ? ]
my
[ ? ] and the receipt came
for it yours was
[ ? ], I
[ ? ]
oh many why dos
[ ? ] me
of days that has gon by
For they was the moments I was hapey and
[ ? ]
They seem as
[ ? ] and
[ ? ] night
Their [ ? ] is but [ ? ]
[ ? ]i think over it and dreem
It [ ? ] joy to morrow
of dark as ever is the sew
But my hast beats for one
[ ? ]
as I
[ ? ] opening these
[ ? ]
one as bright to me as the bower
[ ? ] to
[ ? ] it
[ ? ]
[ ? ]
[ ? ]
Infay and live
Eather on earth
[ ? ]
Ira
a kiss
[On Envelope:]
Claria Simonds
Wateransville
Tuscola Co
Mich
