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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
Battles Mentioned: Richmond, Virginia
Historical Figures: Ulysses S. Grant
Nelsons Ferry Tenn
June 12th 1864
Mett
how ar you by
this time I am well as
usual and enjoying my
self first rate I received
your kind letter day before
yesterday and was very glad
to hear from you I had
just sent one up the day
before I received yours but
howsomever I thought I
would answer yours
we are
rafting up here yet we
have moved our camp
up the river a bout
one mile and a half
since I wrote last we have
got rather a better camp
since we moved up
here it is dryer
we are haveing a great
deel of rain here now
it has rained most every
day or night for ten
days it makes it pretty
muddy traveling a round
and moveing camp so
often you must try and
excuse me if I don’t write
much of a letter we are
up here in the woods and
don’t get much news
we don’t have any reading
only what we borrow
from some of the sitasens
a round here I was over
to a little vilase a bout
a mile from here one
the other side of the river
Harison is the name I
got my dinner over
thare it seemed rather
strange to sit down
to a table with
earthon dishes and white
table cloth I felt all
most lost I borrowed some
books over thare I got some
pretty good stories that helps
pass a way the time when I
dont have to work Harison
has been a very pretty little
plase before the war it
is the county seat of this county
Hamilton thare is quite a
large jail and a first
rate court house thare
was a quite a large academy
thare but it is all gone to
rack now the windows are broken
the fences torn down the
village is a bout half torn
down any
[ ? ] tey appear
to be pretty good Union
folks the most of them
they appear very
very friendly to the soldiers
I haven’t herd any war news
very lately that I could
depend on our force is close
to Dalton the last I herd
I guess Grant will take Richmond
by the fourth of July I
must hury up and finish my
letter for I guess it is a
going to rain pretty soon
by the looks it rains most
all the time now days
you wanted me to excuse you for
not sending any thing in that
box I can readly do that if
you will send lots of good
long letters I will call it al
right I cant think of any
more to write this time thare
aint any thing up here to
write a bout write soon
and remember you friend
P.S. please send
[ ? ] cottons George
a dress
[On Envelope:]
Miss Mariette Hutchins
Lamont
Ottawa Co
Mich
