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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Co F 2nd Reg. Michigan Volunteer Cavalry
Camp, Boliver August 21st, 1863
My Dear Uncle Prosper
It is with pleasure that I seat myself
to chat a little while with you on this
Small Sheet of paper I received your kind
letter that you sent with Auntys and
Right glad I am to think that you havent
quite forgotten me yet but I had begun
to think that you had by your not
writing to me before I believe that you owed
me a letter did you not now think sharp
if you answered my last I did not receive it
and if you have answered all of my letters
why please return good for evil and write
to me often for it is so gosh darned lonesome
way down here
when I dont get any letters
or hear from home
[ ? ] and a while
I save time think that I would
wish them al in hell that is
when I have wrote and then wait some
times
[ ? ] 3 weeks and not receive an
Answer how then is Nell and Aunt
Em. I wrote to them Some time
ago and they are as Still as the
[ ? ]
I suppose that they haint got time
an they would of wrote before this
but I should think that they might
take time if they knew how anxious
I was to hear from them they would
write as often as once a week but now
if I get one once in 2 I think that I
am doing pretty well. but then I supose
that you dont want I should whip
[ ? ]
on them over your shoulder
[ ? ]
well Uncle Pop I dont want this to be
the last time that you write to me (do you
hear) if you dont write to me when I see
you I will down you and spank that old
big
[ ? ] of yours, now mind I
[ ? ]
for he be
[ ? ] to my
[ ? ] if
[ ? ]
haint getting so
[ ? ] that the
[ ? ]
will soon devour
[ ? ] oh I dont supose
that you have such things up them
do you
[ ? ] we have lots of them down
here. that is some of the boys are alive with
them.
[ ? ] they get so big
[ ? ]
the boys that they haul them clean
out of the tent and pull them up against
a tree and get their leg stuck up against
the tree and then sit and crawl on their feet
and then you
[ ? ] them and they will dive
down and whistle. Just like them prairie
dogs and then another funney thing about
them they have brusels on and one double
horned and lined back and
[ ? ]
[ ? ] with a bell on
it them is what wee call green backs but
I haint blest with any now and if I
had time I would catch one so to show
you the specie of them there is diferant kinds
I think that the big lined back ones
are the best for when a fellow gets them
he can have all the fresh meet that
he wants for he can pick off a louce and
it will make a mouthful for him without
anything else. well I guess that I wont linger
on the good quality of them lice to long for if
I do you will begin to want Some
of them for breeders. When Grand
pa is dead is he well I always hate to
hear of any one dying but he is better
where he is than he was in this miserable
world of
[ ? ].
Now Uncle if you can read
this why then you are all right and
if you think that this is worth answering
why I shall be happy to have you
do so. excuse all mistakes and poor writing
Nephew G W. Fullington
to his Uncle
Pop
