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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned: Vicksburg, Mississippi
Historical Figures: Joseph Hooker, Ulysses S. Grant
Louisville Ky
May the 25th 1863
Dear Friends
as I sit down to write the news
comes that the Stars and Stripes
flotes over Vicksburg if this is true
it is the best news we have herd in
sometime the capture of this place
is one of the graitest victory’s of the
war as it will give us the free Nav-
agation of the Mississippi river
cut of there supplys from Texes
and Arkansas leave Grants army
to operate in the rear of the grait
Rebble army in Tenn and compl
them to fight or abandon Tenn. en-
tirely and when this is done I do not
se how they can hold out much
longer for when they ar out of Tenn
and there supplys cut of from Tex
they will have to stay in there cot-
ton states with there sea ports
all shut up ad let me tel you
this they can not do if the news of this
morning is true you will soon hear
stirring news from Tenn notwith-
standing Gen. Hookers bad luck on
the Potomic we ar going to whip them
yet and before long to I think the
western army has never been beeten
yet and I do not think it will this
time but I make due allowance for
all hopeing for the best intending to
make the best of the worst if it comes to
that I got a letter from the reg. today
stating that they wer getting ready
for a long trip some place they do not
know whare but they think somewhere
in Alabama they ar all in good helth
and spirits the wether is verry warm
and dry they ar beginning to cut there
hay now and everything is beginning
have the appearance of Midsummer
[dont you wish you lived in the
Sunny South] We ar getting
Horses now verry fast I think we
will not beapt stay here more than
a week longer but to tell the truth
about it I do not know any thing
about it they say some of us
will stay all summer but whith
er this is so or not I do not know
all that a soldier has got to do is
to obey orders and go whare ever
he is bid I am well and likeing
the service better than ever but there
is a good many tings connected with
it that I do not like and if I am
spared to go home I will then explain
them I donot care much about going
home till the war is over but I would
give a gooddeal to se you all and
have a chat
From John Wasson
May the 25
th
12 Oclock
P.S. Direct to Louisville till I
send you word to stop
J.W.
