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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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In Camp two miles north of Richland, Sumner County, Tenn.
December Saturday the third
Dear wife,
I will write a few lines to you again to let you know our progress towardsNashville. We will get there in three days more if we have good luck. We marched into Tennessee today. It very muddy going on account of the rain we had last night and the night before last. There has been some fighting near Nashville but we will not see any of it. I think we will be stationed as guards on some railroad down here. This a beautiful county here but it is very desolate in some portions of it. The fences are burnt up to cook grub for the soldiers. We are burning them tonight to do our cooking. We find they make a good fire. I want to know if you got them apple trees I signed for and if you go them set out all right if you did not I want you to get them if you can set them out I ordered 5 ruset russets sweet harvest 5 sweet and 5 sour and 5 golden sweets 3 red asteris king of tompkins county if can set out any more than that I want you to get some tolman sweets and put out I got part of a ball of cotton which I will put in my letter. They call it raw cotton here before it has been through the cotton gin. As soon as I can I will send you a few cotton seeds that will
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Mose is on guard tonight. He is homesick I reckon. He has had three letters from Almina. Tom Worden got a letter from his wife tonight. Our mail came up from Nashville this morning and I did not get any from my dear wife. And I want to know if you ain’t sorry for me. Other men get letters from their wives, but I have not gotten any from mine. But I don’t blame her for it; somebody must have played a trick on us or you would have written me before this time.
It is getting late and I must go to bed. So goodnight for to night dear and loving companion. I want you to find out where to direct a letter to James and tell me whear it is direct your leter to nashville tenesee this from Amos Gibbs to his wife Amy
