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Regiment: 6th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: Joseph Hooker
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Camp Stick in the mud
near Farefax V.A.
May 3d 1863
Dear Friend Kate
Kate I thought that
it would be a good way to pass
off the time to write a few lines to you
it is most night and time goes slow
to day and to night I have got
to stand guard I have to stand
guard every other day and have to
burn brush to boot but I play out on
that most always but they will get me once
in a while. there is an old irishman.
lives close to our Camp and you know
we have some fun with him he has two
dogs one pig four hens well it is geting
dark and I shall have to wait till to morrow
So good Evening Kate
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May 4th 1863
Well Kate I will Try
and finish this letter this morning I
have just came off guard it was a nice
night to stand guard there was a small
battle yesterday afternoon at a place called
Warington they fetched thirty wounded
men in here to Farefax last night and
there was some of our boys went to take
care of them it was the first Virginia
and the fifth N.Y. that was in
the engagement, the first V.A. was
just eating Breakfast and Mosbeys
Cavalry charged on them and drove
them in to an old farm and while
they was trying to make them surender the
New York fifth charged on them and
killed about forty and drove them in
to the blud riges and that is the last
that we have heard from the fifth new
york, there is going to be some fighting don
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here before long, Gen. Hooker
has crossed the Rapphanock with
seventy five thousand men and he say that
he has got them just where he wants them
but they hant where I want them for
I would like to have them all sunk in
the ocean and that so deap that they
never would come to the top of the
watter the talk now is that our Reg is
going back to Washington for provose
guard but I dont know how that will be
yet but I think that it would be a
beter place than it is here
but I think that I have wrote
a nough I have pased of the time
prety well since I comenced this
From S. D. Mills
To Kate Hamilton
Good bye
[On Envelope:]
Miss Catharine Hamilton
Grand Rapids
Kent Co
Mich.
