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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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November 23, 1864
Munfordsville, KY In Camp Again
Dear and Affectionate Companion,
I know you air anxious to hear from me I rote a few lines while on the march and did not have time to finish it We left Springfield and marched to Bargetown Whear we camped for the night the the next day’s march brought us too miles northwest of New Haven where we camped on a side hill there. I was detailed on guard to watch a man’s beehives. I watched them all night. I was relieved about one hour before light. Then I went to get my breakfast. And Bartlett went and brought in one of the beehives I had watched all night. So I had plenty of honey to eat. Mose and Tom Worden and some others run the guards and brought in a sheep. It was fat and good so we had plenty of mutton that day
We camped the next night in the woods next night we camped at a plase called bakon brick eight miles north of hear on the nashvill and louisvill rail road We air in bairocks hear the first since we left kalamazo we had to stop here because there was no bridge across the river. All our train has got to cross on a scow one team at a time. It will take 4 days at least. Here is where Ripley died. I will write no more at present. This is from your companion until death.
Amos Gibbs
Truly
