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Regiment: 7th Michigan Infantry
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Camp Benton
febuary the 4th 1862
Dear friends I now take my
pen to rite you a few
lynes to let you no that
I am well at presant
and hope you the same
we got our pay to day
and I thought that I
would send you some
to pay for a nother yoak
of oxen. if you can git
them by paying half
down. and fat the old
oxen + buy them rite
away if you can git
them and turn the
old oxes out in the
spring and let them
run untill fall and
fit fat and kill
them I send you
forty dollars now and
I cant send no more
untill Time next no
more at presant Good
by all
our lieutenant is a
goin home in the morning
he is agoin to
and i sind this mony
by him rite as soon
as you get this from
your son GEO. W. PERKINS
7th Mich. V.
