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Regiment: 9th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: John H. Morgan, Robert E. Lee
Camp fry near hickmans Bridge
July the 21 1863 ky
Wall my dear wife as i
have the opertunety of
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more riting to you
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you know that i am
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fare prospect of gaining
my helth as good as it
was before wall Sina i
was glad to hear that
you injoyed your self
the forth as wellas
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could for myself
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cant say i did
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was sick that day
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had be for 2 weeks but
am on the gain a gain
wall i will tell you how
i enjoyed the 4 the 4 of
july morning we all
prepard for rest and a
a bout 10 o clock the
news come to start
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[chewed away] was burning
[chewed away] the town wall we started
the rain begin to pore
down wall all that was
able to ride on horseback
had to for the wagons was
all full so i had to ride
my horse all nite and
[chewed away] next day when
[chewed away] levnum whare
[chewed away] rebles was then the sick
was ordered back to hickman
Bridge the distants was 40
miles and there the sick
was put in the hospitle
and there we staid 1 week
then i and munt stated
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staid until munt got
sick a gain and is in the
hospitle but i am hear
yet thank God for
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for i thought
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spell i should go over
the dam Sina i cant
see why you are at
Salleys you did not
tell me why but you
said you was there and
had ben up to your
fathers it seams
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you left there
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you rite that you
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to lern the milenarg
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traid for what good
will that do but do as
are a minto i dont care
what you do i cant
tend to your
buisnes and myne to
when i am 500 miles
from home wall Sina
[chewed away] must do the
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will do the same as the
thing are you can
injoy your self there is
lots of Company there
rite and tell me why
you left home it is
in my mind all the
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and how they git a long
tell Saley and jake
i send my best respct
to them and hope they
will proved true to ther
words and i will do the
same
wall Sina you thought
i did not care for
you sina i do with all
my hart i have riten
[chewed away] you more than anyone
[chewed away] hant riten to our
folks but 4 times and
to you i cant tell i
rite ever time i git a
chance and you dont git
them i guss for i rite
some times 2 times a
week ever week i live to
[chewed away] i made amistake
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bout the prisners taken
to vxburg there was
thirty thousand taken
and i got it 3000
so you can alter it to
the folks when you see them
wall sina the news
is in this camp that
our men has got morgan
and his army if this is
so you can look out
for this ware to
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before long for
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me is chasing lee
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and fetching his men
very fast and
Charleston is on fire
and our men will git
it in a few days
and then it is
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with i dont ca
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how quick for my
part for i want to
come home to live
a gain but if it dont
i shall stay till my
time is out this is so
Sina i cant run
a way and if i ever come
i am coming
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thank God i ant a fraid
to die hear and this is
the main part not
[chewed away] i am a fraid
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[chewed away]cose i feel so in my
sole i cant bare
the thought of swaring
the first time i felt
so i was on picket
in the woods a bout
[chewed away] miles from camp
[chewed away] lone to at that
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home as quick as i can
so dont mind me sina
me so i will close
by saying good by
Lucian till i
come a gain
Oh yes Sina tell lory
jane i fear hear chool
will be out befor mine
but tell her to
keep in good
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and wait for the
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to come and than
i will be there then
so you all will
git tired of me
come to my army
my dear my God
is hear to stand
before my waiting
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to lone in i
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open so no more this
time lucina oh Sina
i went to the best meetin
the other day i ever wento in
my life it wa a nigar meting
Sina M Wiser A. H. Wiser
write soon Sina and
tell me what you are a
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traid you rote about so this is all Sina
