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Regiment: 3rd Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman
Saint Louis May 12
th 64
Dear Wife
I have a few moments of reflection
and will improve them by conversing with
you through the blessed comfiture the
Pen To night I am not feeling very
well was sick all night last night
and this forenoon with the sick head
ache and fever but am feeling some
better now think if I am carefull
I will get along all right Edwin is well
he is cooking now with John for the
Company makes a good cook I tell
you we are having lots to do nowadays
on guard every other day so you
can judge how We have to come
to time We mustered for pay some two
weeks ago but no pay yet I tell you it is
nippin times with the boys for money
but I guess it is a good thing as
they would pay it out in the city
going to the varieties etc. etc. and
other places as sometimes corrups
the morals and other members
of the body I received a letter from
you and Duane and I tell you
it done me good as I just had a
tooth pulled and an old
[ ? ], too
it was it kept me up for nearly
two nights and then I had the
Doc flank it this is the military
phrase of it Chatfield said he saw
an Order at Headquarters
this morning stating for
the 3
rd Mich Cav to be in readiness
to move for Memphis in a day
or two I hope the order may
be revoked but cant say
as it will Duane Ewers tells
me that Upton was to pay
the taxes on that piece of
land but if you see him ask
him how it is so he wont know
of my intentions of buying it
for if he should it might make
some difference in my getting
it of Ewers I think I can trade
the share I have in the nursey
at Breedsville even with him
but dont for certain have not
sounded him fully yet
How I wish you all could be
here this month to go the
Sanitary fair it is going
to be one of the best things one
ever saw Duane how I wish
you could be here and go down
to the Navy yard they are
making two iron Gun Boats
and it is a sight worth seeing
One would hardly think that
man was capable of making
such formidable floating
Bodies of War they are over
two hundred and twenty
feet long with siding of iron
1 inch thick outside and in
side and filled up with tim
bers an India rubber to the
thickness of two feet so you see
it would be almost impossible
for a ball to penitrate such
a mass of iron timber & rubber
there is not much news
now only from Grant and
that seems to be good here now
and Sherman is doing a good
thing where he is hope he may
clean the Rebs out of Georgia
and if he does it will bring this
thing one year nearer to a close
than if he gets whiped I tell you
this is a pending cricis just
now and in my opinion it
will decide the coming contest of
this nation
You see I must
close for want of room
M. H. Hogmire
Kiss my chubb me and tell her so
