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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: John B. Hood
Bowling Green, Nov 30th 1864
Dear Father Mother, I
take my pen in hand to let
you know that I am well
at presant hoping that these
few lines will find you in the
same state of health we are a
laying over today so I thought
I would write a few lines to
you to let you know where i
be I am in bowling green
to day new stop to get some
forage for the mules and some
for ourselves to eat since i
last wrote we have traveled
three days the country is afful
poor and desolate can’t get
nothing hardly to
eat in the
town that we are in now
was nice town before the war
but it is most all destroyed now
there was a battle fought here
and our army shelled the town and burnt most of it
up I tell you it looks hard
to see it we are in camp
on the battle ground we cook our
dinner in the riffle pits there
is a fort here and it is guarded
by negroes there is lots of
cannons here we stop here
to let the cavalry past us
they was ordered to the front there
was three thousand and
yesterday we past seventeen
hundred head of cattle I
tell you it was the most
cattle that I ever saw five men was shot on
picket guard here last night
by guerillies they say there
is lots of them around here
we have one with us that
was taken back thirty miles
a cavalry men fetch him
to us to take him to
Nashville I don’t know
what they will do with
him very likely they will
shoot him they kill them
down here every night
general hoods army is
within forty miles of
Nashville we are a going
to start for Nashville to
morrow and when I get
there I will write the
particulars about what
is a going on there
mary + anna write to me
and I will write to you
I was sory to hear
that sagers girl was
sick Morton is well nothing more at this
time but write soon
adress to Nashville
28 mich. infty
co J
