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Regiment: 6th Michigan Infantry
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Good morning my love i am well and i hope you the same i hant but 15 minits to rite in for the
male is going out i got a leter this morning and was glad to here from you and that you are
well i have bin down in the market and bought sum cabig and turnips and carets for a boild
super for my squad with money that i got for rations we are going to have christmas we have
got baked beens for diner you must excuse me for i hant time to rite eny more for i wont this to
start to my love
So good by my deare wife marintha M Kimball from youre husbend Sylvester Kimball
the ground was white with frost this morning but it is warm this morning and will bee a
plesant day i wish i was at home to eat aples and drink sider i beleve i could have more fun
than i can here dont you you said ant marey and harvey was giting mad at uncl levey i supose
he dont cry about it doos he he can live i guess with out them he wont have to give them so
much money tell him to drink a picher of cider for me sum time when it comes handy and when
he is dry you may drink sum for me too i supose you think of me every time you have eny thing
good to eat dont you i have sent 10 dolars to you i put a leter in the ofice this morning with 5
dolars in when you git this you will git 3 or 4 for i rite a most every day and tha go to new
orleans and lay thare till the boat leves for new york and youre leters come to new york and lay
thare till a boat comes here
i have just bought sum fresh fish for my diner that are nice i have got them cleaned i wish you
had sum for youre diner or had the hole of them and me too that would sute me beter and you
too i guess i will go a hunting to marrow an dkill sum birds for my diner
i have got a little song that i cut out of a paper i will send to you you sent sum nice verses to
me
marintha bee carfull and not let eny of the folks lern Charley eny ugley tricks such as saucy talk
or straking i now how it is with little children when tha are small it is cuning but when tha
git big it ant as cuning but tha have got it lernt and it is hard to brake them of it then that is
won grate thing why i hate to have him live thare for pa swares and dexter is ugley he will
lern him bad tricks if he can git a chance just as he wanted to sporte if i would let him but i
never would thare never was a man that more of home and famley than i doo marintha i have
fat c nice picture to send you of grand gulf whare we got fired in by the rebels and wiliam lam
of oure Co was kild by a canon ball a man in the reigement tanted the picture
the 4th wisconsin was a long you must git a frame for it and when we go on oure farm we can
fill oure house with picturs cant we good by for this time from S Kimball M.M. Kimball here
is a kiss my huney
