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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Nov 20 1861 CAMP BENTON (St. Louis.)
Dear Glory I thought as I had time to write
I would improve the time hear is a picher
of the plase whare we are campt it is
a
[ ? ] plase it is an old plant
ation that was tild by Negros but the owner
was a republican he was Fremont brotherlaw
Freemont has don all that any man could halve
don his men felt vary bad to halve him go and
threw down thare arms and said that they would
go home if he went from them but he talked to
them and got them to stay hear you cannot see
all of it as you look at it you ar looking East and
it runs west to another period ground it looks
nise to see two or three thousand horseman in it to once and there
are for thousand infantry on peraid we halve got our
Sabers today and they are giving out the horses today
we will soon be redey to go in + the field with the rest of
our friends our men is not a friend of everything, you must
write soon. Co A. Second Reg. Mich Cavalry yours truly
Ira Graves
