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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Grand Rappids Sept 17
th 1861
Dear Mother
I now sit down
to write you a few lines to let you
know how we are getting along in
leading this kind of a life, we left
Marshall Tuesday morning between
2 & 3 O’clock AM, and arrived at De-
troit 7 OClock PM, we could not get
any dinner there more than a lunch
we got a good dinner at Owosso 80
miles below detroit we got in to
Grand Rappids about 3 and then we
marched up to the barracks and
there we were examined, we had lots
of fun to you better believe, we were
all formed in a line and each one
had to pull his rags we all
passed the examination first rate
Lewis Watterman is all right now
I think, I must bring this short
letter to a close by bidding you
all good bye give my love to all
of the enquiring friends
P.S.
Dave was standing on the car plat-
form and lost his hat off, Frank
is writing on the other half of this
sheet, one of the boy is sick to
night marshall boy
Good Bye
CH Potter
Grand Rappids
