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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Water [ ? ] Alabama
Monday Jan. 9th 1865
My Dear Aunt Emily
I owe you a letter or do you
owe me one whitch is it I know
that there is
[ ? ] have where but
where I cant tell now Supose you tell
but how is all of the folks up there
[ ? ] you all well. how is Aunt Fan
and
[ ? ] and why dont they write
to me I should like to know. I should
[ ? ] now in the best cind of health
and we have gone into winter quarter_
down here at this place. a nice place
[ ? ] I can tell you lots
to eat and not much to do and
a good while to do it in we have
a good
[ ? ] place to sleep. and
besides all of that it haint very
cold neither for it is a raining
pretty briskley
we havent had
Snow Storm here this winter
and that was the 8
th of Dec
and I like to of
[ ? ] them for
I had to lie out in it all or
rather in a wood pile all day
I will tell you you know when
old
[ ? ] came up there in
[ ? ]
with his army. we had to fall back
to Nashville and while we were a falling
back the rebels took me and one
of the boys by the name of Jamey
[ ? ] on the 29
th of November
at Spring hill Tenn and then
marched to Columbia where
we staid until the fourth of
Dec. when I scaled the walls
of the fort and fled and they
first took my boots off of
me and then my over coat and
horse. and both of my blankets
and then took my pants and
in my draws and shirt and
blouse and then they took my
hat and left me an old rebel
hat. So you see I could travel
along and not have anything to
[ ? ] me.
[ ? ] bare headed bare
footed and all most bare legged
but I made up my mind not
to stay with them and I supose
that you know when I make up
my mind to do anything I most
always do it. and just think dont
you think that they were good
to us they gave us one pint of corn
meal not sifted and
[ ? ]
of fresh beef. no salt and that
was all that we had for Six
days. and then we had to lie
on that fort on the hard ground
where the wind had
[ ? ] sweep
[ ? ] and then dont you believe
the rebs that were a guarding
us would bring corn around
car and sell it to the boys
for one dolar in green Backs
per ear and that was the way
we kept life in our boddies for
as soon as I see that the rebs was
a going to take all that I had I
shifted ($5) doler bill out of my
pocket book and sliped it into
the colar of my shirt with a littl
gold pen that Clara gave me. and
they tore up Claras photgraph that
I had in my pocket and while they
were a doing that they made me
loock down the barrel of a loaded
musket. I tell you I kept cussing
them though all the time they were
a doing it but I got out thank the
lord. but ah how you would laugh to
see me now. for I am dressed in a full
rebel Suits clean through but I must
stop give my love to all and keep a
good
[ ? ] for yourself. pleas write often
I am still your true and loveing
Nephew George W. Fullington
