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Regiment: 13th Michigan Infantry
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Camp Hillsboro Penn
Augest the 12th 63
Dear Sister I received your kind and welcome letter
the 10
th of Augest and was varey glad to hear
from you and glad to hear that you was so well
your letter found me as well as could be
expected it is very warm here and we have plenty
of duty to do I have not hurd from Park or harvey
for fore weeks and I donot know what to think
about it Maggie I am very sorey that you have
not go those pictures the man that I sent
them by was first Lieutenant in the
2 Mich. Infan. and he had
[ ? ] he lived
in Kalamazoo and was a quainted with the
Brigs he came to the hospital to see
some of the boys that belonged to his Co
and they said that he was a good fellow
and I thought that I would send it by
by him and I paid him for the postage from kalamazoo
to Allegan I do not know what good it would be for
him to keep it if I new his name I would Publish
him in the papers I would sent it by male but one glass
got broken when it was sent from Nashville to Louisville
and the case bruised some to and I hought if
I could send it by any body I would do it but
I am sory that I did not sent it by male but it
can not be helped you said that hat was a going to get
maried and you said that you was glad of it but you said
that you thought that I would not be Oh yes I am very
glad of it it is the least of my troubles but I hope
that the
[ ? ] will take
[ ? ] the
miserable coward yes I am glad she is a going to get
maried and I hope that al lthe rest of the old
maids will get maried before I get home so they will
not be any body to tell yarns about the neighborhood
well this will do about the old maids I wrote to
you the other day and said that we was a going to
march well we have not marched yet but expect
to go everyday I must close hopeing that this
will find you well I remain as ever your brother
Walter Pullman to my sister Mrs P. A. Pullman
write soon and oblige your brother if you see hat
tell her that I wish her a safe journay good by
