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Regiment: 22nd Michigan Infantry
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Nashville, Tennessee May 10th 1863
Walter Trobridge
Dear Sir
I received your kind and Welcome letter this morning and was very glad to hear from you all once
more and that you ware all well for I began to think that something had hapend to some of you as I
had not heard from you in so long and I was glad to hear that you ware all enjoying good health as I
am happy to inform you it leaves mee at present they weather is very Beuatiful hear but Rather hot
in they midle of they day They gardens present a Splendid apearence hear I saw pease in full bloom
a week ago potatos are knee high hear and all kind of vegitation in proportion They are building a
large fort hear by negro labber They have about three hundred to working thare are some hansom
Buildings that will have to bee Pulled down before they fort can bee Completed it looks hard to see
such hansom dwellings destroyed But such is they Case in They Fourtons it is stated that this fort is
to contant thirty acres when it Finished it is just in they Subburbs of they City Ware they hansom
dwellings is Sittuated and a hansom grove this they are cutting down to Rainge they guns so that
they can sweep they serounding ccuntrey Walter I wish that you cold see they battlefield at
Murfreesboro Ware they fought three days last New Years first they field is litterly covered with
dead horses and mules witch Presents a horrible sight to behold A halful stink that you every smelt
in your life they fiels is covered all over with Graves of ours and Rebbels Soldiers Our Regiment
furnishes one hundred men every day to guard they train from Nashville to Murfreesboro and they
remaining me for picket every Second day We are incamped near they Citty Close to they Staits
Prison They are making they Rebble Citticens own they Corn hear now every man that talks in
favor of they South they either put him in Stats Prison or sends him Beyond they Fedral lines into
Dixey never to return under Pain of death So you see that if some men that was in Pontiac should
talk they same language hear that they do thare they would hang them I say that aney man that
Simpathizes with they Rebbels haught to live ware they gurrelars cold make a raid as they do in they
Border States if you Cold see them you would for they are they dirtyst and louseyest set you
every saw they steel every thing they can get thare hands horses and Cattle and even take Blankets
off from Childrens Beds and they have to eat Now Walter if you See you farm please let me know
how you think that you will sell and if you are going east I sopose you will got to Luchesses
County let mee know if you have heard from your Brother Charles or Perry since I left Please give
my love to Abby and Ida and Except they same your Self Give my love to my Wife and Child You
wanted to know if Charles Sofer was Buried in a coffin Hee was But I think it would Bee inpossible
to Remove him now for they weather is so Warm hear and hee has been buried nearly three weeks
But I never heard that corpes cold not bee sent home But it cost ninty dollars for a metallined case
and then they express is very high must close by Remaining your affanate Frend William Painter
Walter I am much obliged to you for writing to mee
