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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Ceorses Landing
July 20th 64
Dear Sister
it is with the
greatest pleasure that I take my
pen to answer your welcomed
letter which I recd this morning
the boys just came up from
Chattanooga on the steam Boat
they went down last sunday
with a raft since I wrote
to you last our Co moved up
where we were and we have all
moved fifteen miles farther up
the river and we are haveing
some of the nobleist times in the
known world. I quit work
yesterday and I am not going
to work any more for a while
on
[ ? ] of my eyes. They
have been getting sore for a
long while and I cant hardly
see to write. Georg is out too
work sawing logs he has got
two letters but he dont know
it yet for the mail came in
after he went out to work.
I wish that you had went
up to Lisbon the fourth and
enjoyed your self for I never
enjoyed myself better in my life
than I did the fourth we had
fresh mutton has our
[ ? ]
dinner and black Berry pie
ther is no end to it. I thought
of home a good many times the
fourth and I should like to have
been there firstrate but under
the circumstances I had rather
be here weill I shall have to
stop writing and finish my
letter this afternoon for I cant
hardly see to write. Met
I will now try and finish
your letter one of George
letters was from you dated
the twelfth of July. Some
of our letters lay in Chattanooga
quite a spell some times for
we dont have much chance for
getting it only once in a
while. The boys are going
down with a raft tomorrow
so that I can send my letter
right out. Oh dear I wish
you could be here just a little
while so that I wouldent have
to write for I dont know nothing
to write that will interest you
[ ? ] are in a very nice place
and
[ ? ] have first rate mater
and plenty to eat we have
all the Potatoes that we can
eat just by digging them
we went up the river last
sunday to on old Rebs
and dug about two bushels
there is nothing much
but rebs around here
o hum I cant think
of any more to write this
time but I will try and
do better next time
write as soon as you get
this from Sabin
[On Envelope:]
Miss Maryett Hutchins
Berlin
Ottawa Co
Mich
