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Regiment: 9th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
On Flag, One Country.
In Camp Near
Knoxville east tenn
March the 17 1864. Wall
Sina I once more seated
on my botom to try
to pen these few lines
to you to let you
know I am still
on this side of the grave and
am nomberd with the living
sta
still and hope these few un
[ ? ]
lines will find you the same
Sina I have just came in to
camp I and
[ ? ] from whare
whare Dany is camped
I they
came in her 3 days a go and
yesterday what wasw to apear to me
but Dany he came her to see me
so I got a pass and went back
with him and said all day and
all the knite and had
some fun with the boys for
they are raw soldiers you know
but the feel good they are
gon to work on the
fortifications her so
they feel all rite sina tell
Lisa to give herself no
uneasnes for in
corse of 4 or 6 months he
will be there a gan all rite for
this ware ant a
[ ? ] last
but a short time in the
way they are a gain on
know Sina I and Dany
had a talk a bout that
stuff and he and munt to I
got them to talk a bout it
Dany said freeman told lots of
stuff a bout you I know
freeman Dany told me what
freeman told a bout your
bing in the
famley way I never heard of that
before if you are I
[ ? ]
low him to come whare you
be and tel lsuch stuff and
then he his friend you must
stand it if I was inyou
[chewed away] he could not come
[chewed away] me for I
will
would kick him out of the
house Sina he is the one that
is in the falt for
muntson sais he told him
and hiram Card one knite
about gone throu the woods
but Sina dont say any
more on the subject and
let it go for any one
cant think of the
trouble a man has her in
the army so dont say
any more to any one
unless you
