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Regiment: 9th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: Hugh J. Kilpatrick
Aprel the 3 1865
In Camp at
Mount Olive
Station
Wall my dear and beloved
Wife as I feel lonsom to day
I will seat myself to write
you a few lines to let you
know I am well and in good
helth and hope this will find
you the same I recived
in 3 days 9 letters from you
and have answerd some of
them and will I was so glad to
here from you and to here you
had not gon back on me
yet and to here you say
you wanted me to come home
Sina I will come home when my
time is out and I will ask you
one thing and you will tell me
in your next and this is if you
think I and you can go home
up to my old home and live
there with mother and father
or not Sina tell me so I can
know what you think a bout
it so no more on this part
Wall Sina I here mal has
ben doing big buisness
mary ann rote it to me she
told me the hole thing and
that she and Georg had parted
and seteld up Wall this Dam
Ware has ruind many in the
same way but if my pet
Dont leave me I am all rite
ant I Sina same times I feel
as so it was the case when I
here this Dam stuff but I have
faith and confidence in Sina
yet and will say Sina these
three you rote a bout I say Sina
it was Nether of them that
wrote this stuff to me
nor any of my folks nor yours
Sina so we will say no more
about it and say
let ous both try to
do rite and see how
much better it will be so
so Sina give my love to
Salley and Jake and except
the same your self I cant
think of any news to write
onley that they all think here
this ware is not a goin to last
longar than June or July any
how Gineral kill pattrick sais
it will end in 3 months O yes
Sina I had to stop and read
a letter from you one that had
just come Del Buck just came
and brout it to me and
so I will say in the
first place I will tell you the
reason why you do not git any
letters from me and this is becase
we have ben on the march for a
long time and I hant had any
time to write for we could not
send mail until now sence
we came here and you said
you thought of me nits when
you went to bead so do I
think of Sina and wish how
I could have you on my arm
and my other hand in your
Bosem one is myine ant it
Sina so I will close good
by my dear Gal write soon
from A H Wiser to
L M Wiser
Drect Mount Olive Station
North Carolina
