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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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Remembered Friend,
I take my pen in hand to let you know I am in the land of the enemy as well as in the stranger. Now the booming of cannon goes on the air like distant thunder. Preparation for battle is going on constantly. Our army will attack them in force tomorrow. Then we will know who is the best metal under fire.
We have got to our destination without any loss or trouble. I want you to write to me and tell me how you are getting along and what you to drive at now. I would like to have you think over our deal and send me your account against me for what work you have done for my family since I have been gone. And I will make arrangements for it to be paid as soon as I can get it I am writing to pay you all that is rite but I donte want you to be to hard on my family when I am gon I hear from the neighbores if I donte from home I I hear you have got a hous build and intend to keep hous by your self I would like to have you rite to me and tell me
[ ? ] how mutch I ow you I know you are not mean enough to refuse me that request I donte want any body to try to rob my family when I am gon my neighnors fives discouraging acounts from home I hope they air not tru amy says nothing about it so I want you to she says you tolds her you would pay for your board if I would pay you for your expenses to calamazo when I was their now I want to know if I did not tell you I would pay you for your trouble and you said you had been thear a good deal and you would not take anything for it did not you tell me Amy would nead all the money she had before I got back and you would
[ ? ] well for her and when I got home we would make it all rite Charles told you he would pay you for your trouble out their in money or he would five you a few things to pay you for your trouble now is not that rite if it is not I want to know it and if is rite I would like to know what you want her to pay you again for if it is not rite I would like you to write and tell me like a man Oliver. Without any hard feelings I want you to write to me. I know you shall. I shall get a transfer into the Navy and then I will come home a few days. We are not in a brigade yet nor drilled enough so we will not go into pits with the rest of them. We are lying in camp. We shall be put on detached duty until we get drilled.
I am anxious to hear form home. Write as soon as you get this. Tell me all the particulars of what is going on there. When I write to you again I will write all the news. As soon as I get a letter from you I will write again. This is from one that wishes you well. From your brother Amos Gibbs to Oliver
