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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Camp Hamburgh
Tennessee April 30
th 1862
Dear Father
I do not know
as I can find anything to
write about this time but
I will write a few lines to
let you know how I am
getting along, the boys are
all well what is left of
them. Frank & Ira I suppose
[Next 8 lines illegible]
the boat & havent received
any since perhapps you did
not get mine & so I thought
I would write a few lines
to day.
We landed a little
above pittsburgh landing to
a place called Hamburgh stayed
there 2 days & then moved
some 5 or 6 miles nearer the
enemy we started yesterday
morning at 3 oclock some
1600 Cavalry & I Battery & the
Reg of Infantry for the pur
pose of reconnoitering a little
we went some five miles &
came to rebel camp but they
had a lot left about 2 hours
before we got there accept a
few we took some 25 prisnors
and then burned this
Camp we run our horses
3 miles through mud & water
when all at once we came
to a stop, we came slap
on to a secesh Battery masked
Battery well you better believe
we stoped right there when
the cannon balls & shells
commenced flying among
us thick & fast there was
only 2 men killed 1 horse
killed & 1 wounded 1 man
wounded & a nother broke his
leg by running against a tree
well we retreated from there
in good order there was a
ball came within two feet of
Darrow. I commenced this
letter day before yesterday but
was ordered to strike tents
& saddle horses, so I will try
and finish it to day we have
moved 5 or 6 miles nearer the
enemy we are 8 miles from
Corrinth now, this makes
two letters I have written &
have not heard from home
yet. I put a letter in the
office at Cairo, last.
We are in tishomingo Co
Mississippi,
I guess the Ball will
commence tomorrow our troops
are advancing nearer every
day dinner is ready and I
will have to close
give my love to all
Direct the same as you
have.
Charles H. Potter
