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Regiment: 24th Michigan Infantry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: Abraham Lincoln
May the 2, 1865
It is with great pleasur that I send you these few lines [ ? ] they will
find you all well as they leave me and the rest of the boys at present.
Miss Smith, you need not write to I or Edmond till you her from us
again. I expect we will be moved from heer shortly but where I don’t know
but they are mustering out men her now.
To you, Miss Smith, I cannot say much this time. I have only bin on
gard once and Edmond once since we have bin heer. And I don’t think we
will be out many more times heer. Miss Smith, you had ought to see I and
Edmond cook a
[ ? ]jack in that oyister can you sent. That butter in it makes
us a verry good stew pot, Miss Smith.
Tomorrow President Lincoln is buried at Springfield. We can
some of us go to the funeral but I don’t think I will go for it will be
about four days work for the soldiers that goes. It will be a grand sight
I think our regiment can go, a part of the
[ ? ] that is not on gard. But
our banner has bin only at half mast since Abe Lincoln was killed till
this morning. It is at fool mast this morning so I think there is news in
camp which is going to do some.
Miss Smith, Edmond just got a letter from you which I have just read
and was glad to heer from you. And glad to heer that you was all well but
sorry to heer of the thieves down at Uncle Georges. Mister Haugland is a
curious kind of a man I think. Miss Smith, I don’t want you or Hattie to write
to my folks that l am in the army or that you know where I am and when I git
out of the army it will be soon an ought them for them to no where I am. I
never want them to think that I am a homesick boy when I git out of the
army. Then I will go there or write to them. Never till Coson Isaac that I
have bin to your house or that you knowed there was any such a boy living
on irth as wa Stone.
Miss Smith, I would like to heer from my friends but I have seen thre
of my playmates since I have bin heer but they promised me that they would
never send word where I was.
Miss Smith, there was a man shot heer day before yesterday and he lived
about 5 ours and died. I had to stand gard in the night where he
was shot in the daytime. He was a man that had bin drafted in Indiana
and run away to Illinois and volunteered and some of the boys sayed he
was to be shot and he sayed if he was going to be shot anyhow he would
try to git away. And so the pore man lost his life. He would have bin
mustered out of the survis today if he had
[ ? ] stayed. So some man has to
answer for that murder.
