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Regiment: 15th Michigan Infantry
Battles Mentioned: Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
Historical Figures:
[Eagle, snake, shield, and sword]
The Union Forever.
Crush the Rebellion.
Dundee August
The 3ird
in 1862
Dear Mothr
& friends in [ ? ]
I has ben a gong time
Sine I [ ? ] or wrote
you a letter & with the request
of my brother luke I will
wright you a few lines informing
you I am well at presant
& desire those lines
to find you the same luke
at present is well he has
Laid sick in the hosspitel
2 months previous to that
he was in a verry
Hard battel of two days
duration you hav probly
seen the account of it
I was the battle of
pittsburg landing
But did not get a scratch
you must not lay up
Every hardness for I dont
Tell
[ ? ] false that
I am well tell granpa
I think as mutch of him
as I ever did & all the rest
I am going to wright to
him if you want to
wright to luke Direct
pittsburg landing
no in this way
Pvt Luke Libby
15
th Michigan
Infentry Company
K
Pittsburg
Landing
Tennessee
3 page
It is dark
as you will see
By my writing
I should like to
Hav you wright to me
Ell is well all of us
O I forgot
Mrs. Maraneter
Libbey
is well
at present
good by
