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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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Historical Figures: Pierre G. T. Beauregard
November 30, 1864
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Letter number nine
Dear Wife,
I will write a few lines tonight to let you know that I have not forgotten one who I know is thinking of me day and night. I am well and enjoying myself as well possible under such circumstances. We have been marching over two weeks and it is a hard pull for new soldiers like us. We will get to Nashville in about five days if we have good luck.
We are camped in about twenty rods of a fort built by Beauregard. There is two more in sight. When he was here he had the timber within three miles of here all but cut so to give the cannon good range over the ground.
I have been out foraging hay for our teams. We will start our march at four o’clock in the morning. I wrote you a letter day before yesterday. I mailed it today. I will mail this tomorrow or next day somewhere on the road. I was sorry to hear you had not received any of my letters yet when you get one you will see I wont Alonzo to take my leters out of the ofice and nobody else I am anxious to hear from you all I have not had the opportunity of hearing from you yet although I have heard from almost everybody else in Michigan that I ever saw or knew in that state but my dear wife if I could see you I could talke with you and not geting sleepy I could talk all night but that privelige is denied to us at present but I will get a furlough and transfer into the Navy as soon as I can after I get to Nashville.
Mose is well and getting fat but he is getting homesick as fast as he is getting fat. If it was not for my family, I could be contented here, but home is dearer than all on earth besides I will talk with you on paper if I cannot any other way I want you to find out whear to direct a leter to Annibe and tell me in your letter if you get my letters and books and papers I have sent you. I will send some other notions to you. Tell me if you have got anything from the Relief Fund and what he said about it and if the cow is of any account to you this winter and if want drew the hay for you and if you have any trouble getting along have you got that flour for my diging that will yet and olde grose has brought you fifty pounds for what scantling in the road up to millers and if you get that money miss Carey if your hous is comefortable for you this winter and if can I want you to right to me every week
It is warm as summer here now. It snowed here last week a little just enough to make the ground white. It froze a little for the first time this winter. Our feed is good. Write as soon as you get this. Direct your letter to Amos Gibbs, Co. G, 28th Mich. Infantry, Nashville, Tenn. Good bye for tonight. God Bless my dear family. This is from your loving husband and companion in life and one who thinks of you day and night asleep or awake.
