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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Apr 21th 1862
Dear Sister Mariette
It is with great
that I take my pen to
answer your kind letter which
I received Apr the 15
th it found me
acording to your wishes well and
I hope this will find you the same
I got Netts letter day before yesterday
and I shall answer it as soon as
I can get around to it you said
it was very muddy up there this
spring it is qite different down here
for it hasent rained hardly any
and conceqently the roads are qite
durty
Well sis I have written to norman
but have not received an answer yet I tell
you it is quite a task for me
to write a letter and I beleive
if I were to home I wouldent write
no great many Nett said that Mast
was dead it dont seem possible I wish
he could have until I got back but
I dont know but he has suffred long
enough I see Tommy Wasson and
Cove rosegrant and Theodore Carlisle the
other day but you will see them
before you get this I suppose
Theodore wont get there in time to
see Mast. I wish that you and Nett
wouldent say any any thing about my
pictire for there isnt any macine down here
that can take it and another thing
I havent got any money to spare now
to have it taken now but I think we
will be paid off the first of next
month and then I shall have it
taken so you may expect it as
soon as we are paid off well mett
I never enjoyed myself so well in
my life as I do none, the rest of
the boys are well Ike is so he
[ ? ] got
out around well I must go to work
now and finish my letter this eveni
ng Good morning
Thursday noon I sit down
again to finish this letter but
I dont know as I shall have
time to finish it before the mill
starts up or not. I have just
been to dinner. I was up to camp
last night and Steve Owens he is
here to work this regiment is build-
ing a magagene andhe
is here to help do the mason work
you wanted to know whether I had
been vaxinated or not I have been
once but it dident work. I am a
going to try it again before long
I think you and John M. had
ought to be put into bag and
shook up to see which would come
out a head in giving me orders
about playing cards and swearing
just as though I dident know
enough to get along with out it
myself well I dont know as
I do. Mett I wish you would
tell me something to write for
I cant think of any more to
write this time so I must
come to close you must write
as often as you can and
oblige your Brother Sabe
From Sabin To Mariette
[On Envelope:]
Miss Mariette Hutchins
Berlin
Ottawa Co
Mich
Recd April 28
th 64
