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Regiment: 28th Michigan Infantry
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October 30, 1864
Louisville, Kentucky
Dear Wife,
I left camp Wednesday evening about [ ? ] of [ ? ] in the car [ ? ] we arived at Michigan City at day break Thursday that day we went to lay
[ ? ] fryday we went to Indianoplas that night we went to Jefersonvill Saturday we crossed the Ohio river into Louisville, Kentucky. About noon I was detailed to go with the others to Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie with 20 Reb Officers prisoners of war. We did not start until Sunday. I had begun this letter when I was ordered to stop. We crossed the river and took the cars. We got to Indianapolis before light we stayed there until night. Then we took the cars for Bellefontaine, Ohio; from there to Sandusky and there took the Steamboat to the Island. We returned the same way we went.
We are camped too miles south of the Ohio River Louisville lies between us and the river it is 4 miles long and too wide it is the richest vilage i ever saw of its size have has cloth tents large enough for too men. There is too regiments of Blacks on the North side of us in barracks guarding rebs, too regiments of Cavalry on the south of us and one of flying artillery on the east and one of heavy artillery on the west.
that is to railroads there is 5 men in the hospitle we air very healthy hear the soil is very light here the we other is wet and cold i have been in some god country since I left home i have been on the cars eight days and nights tell Al I wish he was here. He could get all the riding horseback wants and get good pay. There is from 25 to 100 horses sold here every few days at auction. From 5 to 25 dollars each. They air called broken down. They air what the
Cavalry has said ill or was too poor to use.
Direct your leter
to Camp Fillips
Michigan 28 Louisvil
l Kentucky
from your afectionate
husband Amos
Gibbs
