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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Hd. Qrs. Detach. 1st Mich Engrs
Stevenson Ala. June 23d 1864
My Darling Mother
We received yours of June 16th
to day. You don’t know how bad it makes me
feel to think our darling boy has been so
sick and I am thankful to an overruling
providence that when you wrote he was on the
gain. I cant help but think how lonely and
bad you must have felt when all alone
tending “our baby” when he was so very sick.
I hope he will gain rapidly and soon have
his usual strength and activaty and be
again as he has been a streak of sunshine
sent from heaven to cheer the lonely homes you
spend while husband and oldest boy are
absent on the field of strife. I hope the
watching and anxiety on Eddies account will
not make you sick you must be very
careful of yourself and not over exercise
yourself as the hot season approaches.
It is very hot down here, as I sit here
writing the sweat runs down my face
as if I was hard at work in the north.
My health has improved very much in
two or three days I am entirely over my
difficulty and getting tough as can be
I think I am going to stand the warm
weather remarkably well I wrote a letter
to you last Sunday one to Eddie Monday
and one to you again Tuesday so my stock
is nearly out. Hoping that when this
reaches you the angel of health
may again brood over our household and
that before long we may be a reunited
family I Remain
Your Son
Mother.
Newton Fox
[On Envelope:]
Mrs. P.V. Fox
Box 795
Grand Rapids
Mich
