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Regiment: 6th Michigan Cavalry
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Ever of Thee.
As sung by David S. Wambold, with immense success
throughout the States.
Ever of Thee I’m fondly thinking,
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer,
Thou wert the Star that mildly beaming,
Shone o’er my path when all was dark and drear;
Still in my Heart thy form I cherish,
Every kind though like a Bird flies to thee.
Ah! never ’till Life and Memory perish,
Can I forget how dear thou art to me,
Morn, noon and night, where’er I may be,
Fondly I’m dreaming ever of Thee,
Fondly I’m dreaming ever of Thee.
Ever of Thee, when sad and lonely,
Wandering afar my soul joyed to dwell:
Ah! then I felt I loved thee only,
All seemed to fade before affection’s spell;
Years have not chill’d the love I cherish,
True as the stars hath my heart been to thee.
Ah! never ’till Life, &c.
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Washington D.C.
Camp Gray
March 11th 1863
Absent though not
forgoton .. … … Friend … Kate
I have not had any letter from
you in some time and I herd that
your father was sick and I thought
that a few lines wouldnt do you any hurt
you promised to write every sunday and
I guess that you have forgot it I for the
last to sundays or I should have had
one from you but when you forget it
I will write and put you in mind of it
that is if you dont forget to often I got
a letter from Susan to day and she said that
your father was sick with the lung fever there is
lots of that here but we have a diferent
name for it we call it the pneumonia I have
got a hard cold and I am afraid that it means
to stay by me the other side of this is rather dirty
but you can burn it and I will
write on another sheat
Catharine Hamilton
Grand Rapids
Kent Co
Mich.
maybee you think that I wouldnt mak
a very good cook but if you was here
I would show you the diferent we had to
nice chickens las tnight for super the
way that we came by them they was
going acrost the road and one of our
boys well I am geting to fast when they
was crosing the road they got stuck in
the mud and then one of the boys catched
them and fetched them to camp
and that is the way that we serve
them here I got a letter from home
to day and they are all well except
Pa and he had a bad cold but it
is geting late and I wont bother you
with much more this time if I write
more letters than you can find time to
read just send me a line and I
will put a brake on the
letters that I write but you
neadnt think so when you write
for the more the beter and I always
lik to write when one will answer
them but if they wait to or three
months then I will quit now I have
told you so when you dont want as
many you know how to get rid of
them but I am in hopse that
I wont send anough to mak you
sick if I did I would want to
got to heaven the next minute
for I dont think I should take any
comfort this side of there but you
musnt tak any pride in what I say
if you do you will be proud all the
time but Olive said that you wanto
to know if I didnt think you would
be handsom when you got that new
dress but I dont know as you
will be any more beautiful than
you was before for my part I thought
that you was alway pretty but I
think you have got a very
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dress but there is more in action
than any thing else to sent me
but I hant very harde suited if I
was this kind of life wouldnt suit me
but here I am going on with this
livg and I said that I wouldnt
bother you with so much but you
must excuse me this time and I
will try and not write so mutch
give my love to your father and
mother and all inquiring friends
if I have any such except sylvia
I dont call her a friend any
more From your friend
Saml D. Mills To C. Hamilton
write soon good bye
[On Envelope:]
Miss Catharine Hamilton
Grand Rapids
Michigan
