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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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December 6, 1864
Nashville, Tennessee
Dear and loving companion,
I received your letter last night and was glad to hear from you and hear that you was all well. I wrote some letters to you but I did not mail them until today because I did not get to a post office. On Sunday night we got to Gallatin and that night I wrote a letter to you and then I went to my bunk and slept.
About one hour then we were ordered to strike tents and get ready to march. We started in at midnight and went ten miles then. We were tired from our march the day before, so we got Cavalry to guard us through and we got on the train and rode the rest of the way to Nashville.
They have been fighting here about 5 days and are at it while I write. I can hear the roar of the big guns on Fort Negley. It tells me that death is doing its work. We have one hundred and fifty thousand men here. We have got 12 gunboats on the river. They look ugly I reckon to a man that is not used to seeing them. The Rebs have 75 thousand men here. day before yesterday, they sent in a flag of truce and demanded the surrender of the city.
This morning everything is quiet on the line, but firing was kept up all night. The enemy moved down the river. They took three gunboats but one of our gun boats took them back again doing some damage to the enemy.
I want to know what charges Al made against you for his services. I want to know if has got suit of soldier’s cloth he was to have some for his trouble and he was not to charge against me. He said he would not. I told him I would pay him for his trouble, but he said he did not want anything for it he had one dolar of me and an other man tolde him if he did not get them cloths he would pay him the money for his trouble he for gets he boarded with me four weaks whear he was hurt and that I spent on day in going after the doctor and the next day I
[ ? ] to pay for his trouble and to pay a man for burying him home and a gain I went after the docter for him he gave me five dolars and I done one days loging for harvy to pay for a horse he used at the same time I could get 14 shilings a day for my labor the four days I spent I could have got 7 seven dolars for it he said he would pay me for my trouble and for his board but I did not charge him with it he told me he remembered it and he would dig the well and fix the house and he would not charge you anything for it if he did not get anything from Jerome. I want to know if I am willing to pay what is right, but I don’t want him to rob my family now I am gon from them I will come home before long and I will setle with him for our deal you need not tell me all his charged
