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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Infantry
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Camp Lincoln
June 21 1862
Dear Friend
It is a long time since I heard from you & some time since I wrote. Tell
the folks that when we get in a different place that I will write to
them for it is most impossible for me to write here for we have to go
on picket most every day & get up two or three times a night if there
is alarm given. Then is not much going on here now. The rebels
threw a few shells over here yesterday & some this morning. We have
got rifle pits & forts thrown up all along here for a good many
miles & the woods all cut down in front of us. It is about 7 miles to
Richmond. We are camped on the battlefield where they commenced
on Casy Division. I thought that I would send you a few dollars to
keep for me if I should ever live to get back if you should not want to
use it, so no more. Good Bye from W. Thayer
