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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Browns Borrow Station
Alabama May 15 1864
To Miss Ann Clark
I received your letter to night and was
quiet glad to hear from you and I have not
read they hole of they leter but I have red
enough to understand that you got they
cow and praps you will have a good one
and Bill Taft had not better take to
much for I be smart enough for hiim this
time and his money has been wating of
him ever since 8 day of January last and
it was not diew on the first day of May
nether and he must recolect that I
be in they Army and no cant for close
I supose he was mad about the cow
I had a letter stating that he was to have
pay for keeping her through the winter and
I rote to him and about that castle if you
do not sucseed this time dont try no
more give it hup and about that varment
it is not in my head but in my close
I have no such thing in my head at all
look in your letter again or it is my misstake
if I understand you you sent me a box
of pills I have not got them yet and I
understand that you want to send me
a box but I tell you again not to send
anything till I send for it and ten it will
be time enough for it may lay in Nashville
three or four months before I gett it and
I do not want any thing only a letter with
some news
[ ? ] and to hear that you
are all well and getting a long right
and a nother thing you try and find
they letter that I ever sent to you stating
that you should give me a count of
every sent that you spent or if ever I
asked you now I dont want you
to send me any more such stuff
remember I said to you if you send
me any thing send they prise and the
reason is that I now the differance of
prises and every one is asking how I only
ask you to produse that letter as I
have rote stating that I want a ful
a count of the expenditure and if they
Cap let you have any money let me
know and I will pay him I signed they
pay rowl a week a go last saturday for
the first time but I have got no pay yet
and we expect it everyday yet and
I wish you would examin my letters
verry cloose for I never by no person
you ned not think but I have got a
feeling yet I think you will find in
my first letter that I said you must
yet some thing to heat in the ouse and
in my last one I have been trying to
get a paper to send to the Cap for this
two or three days but I cant get one
I came to Nick Seaar last friday and
on Saturday he red Cap letter he
sail that he ware going to rite to
Cap on Sunday but wether he did
or not I do not know for I have not
asked him and I have had no
letter from George Starkwether yet
there is every prospect of being have
thu winter more so then ever I
so before
so
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Yours Wm Slater
