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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Camp Anderson Oct
14th
‘61
Dear Mother
I now take this
chance to write to you to
let you know I am getting
along. I am well and so is
all of the boys at present
how does Ella get along &
harvey and all of the rest
I dont know when we shall
leave here they talk some
of sending us to Detroit
to stay untill the second
regiment gets ready but
I hope not for I want to
go right washington from here
has pa gone to Detroit yet
he was calculating to go to
day I dont think we will
go away before next week.
we have got our shirts and
drawers & our shoes and stocking
so we live pretty comfortably
now there is about 100 tents
on the ground now & 6 or 7
hundred horses there is calculated
to be 8 hundred by to morrow
there is agoing to be a picnic
here on the ground then their
is going to be 8 hundred
uniformed the and ride their
horses we had a good supper
on the cars when we came
Frank had a mince pie and
Hank & Ira lots of cake.
I will have to close my
letter for Mr Darrow is calling
for me to go on guard all
day and night I am going to
write to lib to morrow morning
Yours truly CH Potter
Rapids
