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Regiment: 23rd Michigan Infantry
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Bowlinggreen
Nov. 17th,’62
Dear Brother,
I will improve the opportunity of informing you of my whereabouts & also of
what I am doing for a living. Since I last seen you I have seen some of the world &
learnt what it is to be a soldier. This is not easy learnt & will not be soon forgotten.
I have traveled about one hundred & 70 miles over the red clay of Kentucky
carrying a knapsack that weighed some less than a hundred lbs but then we had
good living & that is the main thing. I will tell you what we have had & then you
can be your own judge as to how good it is. We had hard crackers that was made
before the revolution war. We also had bacon that was as strong as a horse. We
also had beans & rice but when we was on a march we could not cook them, but I
have passed through it all and I am yet alive & well. We are now stationed in the
village of Bowlinggreen as provost guards. We have been here about a week and
during that time we have lived better than we have before since we left Saginaw.
We expect to stay here all winter & the probability is that we will all go home in the
spring so that we expect that our hard times is about over. The fourteenth Reg. is at
Nashville & I intend to go & see Norman & Daniel as soon as I can get a chance.
They are about 70 miles from here.
Well I must close soon. You will please write soon & tell me whether you
got that likenesses that I sent you. I also sent Jane & another to William Baldwin.
When you write let me know if they all got through safe.
Direct your letter to
23 Reg. Mich. Inft. Co. G.
Louisville, KY
excuse this from
a friend
Peter Russell
