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Regiment: 5th Michigan Infantry
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Historical Figures:
Headquarters Camp Michigan Virginia
Fifth Reg’t Michigan Volunteers, Comp D
December 21st 1861
[ ? ] for a long time I have been
thinking of writing to you but there
is Li little chance or convenience to write
[ ? ] my correspondence is limited to a
verry small no but as you have written
I must of course answer until do it with
pleasure and will look for another
You tell me you have not much
to write about but anything from there
is perused with avidity occasionally use
get hold of an old Michigan paper
and it has to go all through the Co.
but I suppose there is no use in trying
to tell you anything about our doings
on the Potomac for you get evry move
that is made in the papers long before
it would reach you by letter since
leaving Ft. Lyon we have had but
little to do except drilling and guard
duty we are in a verry pleasant healthy
place and the boys are all well contented and
enjoying themselves first rate. it is warm
pleasant sunny days and bright noon
light nights just such weather as you would +
suppose to be down in the old Dominion
state. Orve if you have not bought
that land yet I wish you would not
for congress will surely make an app-
-ropraition of land for the soldiers and
I want you to go into the woods with
me for I am going back to the old
Peninsula State again when the war
is over which I do not think will
be longer than
[ ? ] summer but
I must write some to dollie and will close Jim
