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Regiment: 22nd Michigan Infantry
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oct 28, 1862
camp near lexington
dear wife
it is a beautifull mornjng and i am quit well at present we arse
encampedone half a mile souih of lexington in a hansom place and we have very good watiier but wood is scarce and the weather is quit cold last sunday morning th snow was
5 inches deep but it has all melted off now. lexington is quit a cittys but not as nice as the cittys at home and the inhabtants ia all most of them black the whites are in the rebel armey there was a battle in lexington last satterday with rebel morgan and the 4 ohio calvery morgan wh1ped the cal very took 350 of them prisoners morgan proled th ement but he took the horses and all of this emcampment from our present encampment we can see the monument of henry clay it is a fine thing it is one hundred and twenty feet high and his full statue is on
top of it and it is a hansome thing since i wrote last we have had a forced march to parris it is a fine place of about 25 hundred inhabatents and they seam to be union mostley we had to sleep out in the open air the most of the time and it was pritty cold some times but we have our tents now. apart of the time we ate at the tavern and a private house and apart of the regiment sleep ln the courthouse and from there we went to mount sterling in going there we went through north midelton and there is some fine country as i every saw it is a very fine farming country and fine
buildings after we got there we staid there from tuesday till friday noon then we marched about smiles that night and camped on the banks of the stones river in the morning we took up our line of march towards lexington and passed through winchester then we took a around about way and came to abalsherrs ther staid and sleep in the court house and chuch. sunday morning took up a line of march for camp where the rest of the reg was the rain fell that nigiit and about 6 inces and made it bad marching.
white we wer at mount sterling there was about 175 rebels came in and give
themselves up and says that they will never fight again they wer ragged, dirty and lowsey filthyset of men some of them wer bare footed and some with out hats on our we captured one rebel curnel his name was blackenes we took him at his one house please give my love to walter and abey and send me yours and little abeys likness while on the tramp we marched about 200 miles over hills and through hollows and through river bottoms and drove every thing before us but never fired a gun at the rebels yet when you receive this please answer as soon as convient and except of much love from your loving husband
w painter
please direct to lexington instead of cincinatia
