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Regiment: 6th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
[Image of George
Washington]
Sound the praise of heroes gone,
Sound the praise of Washington.
washington
Camp gray
feb 6 1863
my dear fried
kate I take my pen
to let you know that
I am well and hope that
this will find you the
same I reseved your
leter of the 26 and was
glad to hear from you
sam and ream is
sick john says that
he has
roat roat you
a letter and he says
he wont write til
you do I gues ream out
mad he hant had any
from you yet there
there is a bout
a thousand
head of cattel
there is cattel a
going by here
evry day it snowed
all day yesterday and
rand all last night
and is a raining yet
I am on gard to day
most all the boys
is sick and I hav to
stand gard evry other
day tel loisa that she
is a darnd fool if she
goes home to live I
hope he is a going a
way but it to god
nows to be tough it
would be ablesing
if he and another man
would leav john
has got anew hat
and he feels pretty
big over it he says
that I hav roat more
lyes than you can
po put in a army
wagens tel oliv and merit
l not to get a fighting
and kill each other for
it is bad enough for
the men there is more
milk pedlers here than
you can put in a ten
acre lot but it
is more than half
watter there is more
nigers here than white
men I dident like
a niger but I hate them
now I can shot them
as well as I
can a
squirl
so good by
from your
friend Fred to kate
