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Regiment: 5th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: Samuel P. Heintzelman
Frederick Md. July 19/63
My Dearest Wife
I came here yester
day from Boonsboro am stopping
at the city hotel I reported to
a Doctor this morning who attends
sick + wounded officers, who
gave me some medicine but
I feel so much better that I
do not think I need any medi-
cine I am getting pretty good
living which is setting me
all right again. Frederick is
full of officers not so many
as there has been however. The
Army is mostly across the riv-
er again on the Virginia side
We rec’d a report yesterday
that Gen. Heinkelman had
taken right
[ ? ] and prisoner
over the river without much
fighting many officers are
confident that the next sixty
days will see the fighting done
with that the reverses the rebs
have met with here in P
[ ? ]
+ md, and Vicksburg + Port
Hudson has pretty effectionally
used them up Good grant
that is os we have been
very successful of late for which
we ought to be thankful.
The weather is warm and
pleasant has not rained for
two days.
I am anxiously waiting for
a letter I cant see why we
don’t get some it seems as
though that if our Division
Post Master would go to
Washington we might get some
It seems so strange not
to hear in nearly a month
when it only takes two or three
days for a letter to come
I shall be a lady when the
next month has passed it will
be so much Cooler. I wonder
what you are doing to day
thinking about me I flatter myself
well keep up Courage I am
in hopes it will be all right
yet.
Well I must close think
I will join the regt in a day
or two. Write often.
I am your [ ? ]
Egbert
