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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Historical Figures:
28th 1865
Goldsboro March
Dear Sister
I will try and
answer your letter which I reced
day before yesterday but I dont
know how I shall make out
for I havent written any in
so long a time that I havent
almost forgotten how I was
glad to hear that you were
well and wish that I could
tell you that am enjoying the
same health, but I cant do
it this time. I was taken with the
intermittent fever about a
150 miles back from here and
I expect that I was pretty
sick for a week or two but
I am getting along firstrate now.
I feel as well as I ever did
but I am awful weak for me
well I guess that I dident
fell quite as bad as you did
when I reced your letter for
I dident squall, but I was
very glad to hear from you
for it seemed as thought I
hadent heard from you in
a year. I
[ ? ] had time pass
away as it has since we
left Atlanta we was out
62 days on this last march
but I never enjoyed myself
better in my life than I
did on this march untill
I was taken sick and then
it wasent so much fun.
Columbia was the prettiest place
what there was left of it that
I ever saw but it was pretty
badly burned when we went
through there, but it had very
wide streets and then there
was ever Green Oaks set
in the center of the streets
just as thick as they could
stand and I tell you the
looked nice if I know any thing
about it. What you Dant? E
we got lost of flour there and
sugar and tbacco and most every
thing that you could think
of. I dont know how much
of a place this is for I
havent been down town,
yet. Abe Biglow is a
[ ? ] ones
he was taken back at
Chesan. Well I dont know
as I can think more to write
this time only we have got
a nice camp ground and got
up firstrate quarters our shanty
is 7 by ten feet large and 8
feet high, and my have
plenty of rations but I
dont know how long we
shall stay here. I should
like to stay here long untill
I get tough enough to march
then I dont care if they go
to richmond. Mett I wish
that you would have father
send me some paper and envelop
and good pair of suspenders
George and me got our hats +
socks the first mail that
came in after we got here
well I guess that you will
think that I have written
enough for a sick boy so
stop just now. The report
in camp is that richmond
is captured with Jeff Davis and
his cabinett but I dont beve it
write soon and oblige
Brother Sabin
