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Regiment: 5th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned: Trevilian Station, Virginia
Historical Figures:
Camp 5 Mich Cavalry
July 15th 1864
Miss Hutchins
Excuse me for being so bold as to write to you. Adelbert Hatten left
your Potograph & one of your letters with one of our boys. I thought I would
write & send them to you & let you know what became of him. He was taken
Prisner at Trivillian Station. I saw him a few minnets before he was taken. He
was taken in a charge. We lost a good many men thare. Our Co, went into the
fight with twenty nine men & came out with ten. We lost nineteen men. We lost
in the Regiment, one hundred & sixty four men in that fight. They wer mostly
prisners. We have had some vary hard fighting this summer & last summer to.
I have been in all of them. We are in Camp on the James River near Sity Point
now. It is a plesant place but we wont stay here long. It is vary dry here. They
is some fireing allong the line evry day. The Rebs are in Mariland now. I wish they
would let us go thare after them but I suppose they want us here worse. I had a
notion to keep your Photograph but I thought you wouldnt like it. You must excuse
this. I would like to hear from you vary mutch. Yours with respect
Sergeant
Alonzo M. Wolaver
Co. B 5 Mich Cav.
Washington D.C.
