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Regiment: 4th Michigan Infantry
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Dear Father I will send
you these chestnuts and some
Persimmon seeds I saved quite
a number but they got smashed
in my pocket and these are all
that are left perhaps you
would like try them to see
if they will grow I presume
it would be as well to lay
them up till spring they
will not need any freezing
as I have seen a good many
growing a few days after they
fell from the trees
The persimmons grow on trees
the largest of which are 8 or
10 in in diameter they
are about as large as a large
plum and have four or five
seeds in them they are very
sweet when fully ripe but
at any time before are
detestable as they are bitter
puckering and hard about
like the shuck of a bitternut
There are a great many of
both here and I presume it
would look quite natural to
you if you could see the
chestnuts and pines here
This is as nice country
but we have scared the
people away and have
burned up all the fences
where
[ ? ] we have camped
for a few days
I would write the news
in this letter if I had
not already written to Karia
and Leander
I will send a piece of a
veil which I got on picket
beyond culpepper it was
in a fine old slave holders
dwelling he had left in
something of a hurry
We gound his private
papers &c scattered about
and the heavy furniture
turned topsy turvy
There was some of the
nicest tables bed steads
and bureaus I ever saw all
of which got burned and
smashed before we left
it was done by some of
our scamps on the sly
Our officers do not allow
such things where they can
help it give the piece of
of cloth to the girls
as there is nothing that I
think of to write I will close
from your son G.W. Lewis
[On Envelope:]
Mr Joseph P. Lewis
West Windsor
Eaton Co. Mich
Soldiers Mail
Wm Wright
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