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Regiment: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
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March the 7th Carrier Ill
Dear father and mother i supose your
thinking by this time that i have quite
forgotton i dont blame you a bit but you
must allow some
[illegible]
in which i am placed i am on detacth
[ ? ] myself and another one out of our
company we where taken from our company
sent on to Carrior Illinois and i am
now on board of the gun boat
[ ? ]
city we went down the river the other
day to Clombus they sent us a flag of
truce and all we had to do was to turn
back again we came back to ancer
the same night we recieved orders to
go up to fort Lonoson we sailed
up the river three days and nights the
third day we broke our engine
of the boat we tied our boat to
a tree and lay there four days
when tow boats steam boats came
up to towe as down again so here we
are back again at Carior ill i should
have written to you before to let you
now where i am but same of the
[ ? ] on board this stole my
paper and stamps i had to brrow
this paper and stamp of one of our
company that came with me his
name is Bice a Cornishman
Weare laying here at carrios
now fitting up our old gun
boat which in shape is somting
like a mud turtul and it cant
sail much faster we aer in
Camidores fotes fleet some of the
fleet went down the river yester
day the rebels have run away from
Clombus they spked some of
there guns and thrould a great
many in the river and run like
Devels i forgot to menton that
wen we went down there on
Sundy they fired 3 or four shels at
us but we where out of there reach
and there firing was no good
i expect that we shal be here a
week yet if you get this letter send
me one right away we get noting to
read on board of this boat i dont
know when we shal get any money
here it out like a solder some
times you dont get any for four
or five monts i hope this ware
will be over soon i am sick of
it it is very cold here in carrior
three times as cold as it is in
Washington we had snow
here yesterday and it is very
cold give my love to all the
children
from your afettnat
son Richard
Chesterfield
Direct to
Mr Richard Chesterfield
US Gun Boat
Moun City
Carrior Ill
