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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
Chattinooga
Sunday Evening April 3d 64
How do you do Met
I am
well at present and hope
these few lines may
find you the same
and the rest of the folks
a getting well I have
been up on Mt. Lookout
to day it was a prtty
hard walk up to the
top it is said to be
twento four hundread feet
high from the level of
the river it is very
rocky all the way up thare
is one cliff of rocks up
most to the top rite strait
up so we have to go up
on ladders
thare is a large are hard
up on the side of the
mountain the largest orchard
I ever saw. I should think
thare was fifteen or twenty
hundred some of peach tres
they were all in bloom
thare is quite a little
village up on the top
called summer town it is a very
pleasant little place
Co C has gone up thare
to work our Co is not
a going up rite off may
be not at all. it would
bee a nice place to stay
through the summer
thare is quite a large
cave on the north side
of the mountain it is
said be to three or four
miles long the enterance
is a bout nine feet high
and ten or twelve
feet broad I did not
go in for for I had
no light I and Sabin are
going in some time with
a lite thare is a
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gallery up one top
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they take pcture with mount-
-ain cenery they are very nice i
think Sabin has gone down
to the saw mill to work
so we are separated some
what but it ant but
a little way from our
camp a bout three quarters
of a mile I see him every
day or two theadore is down
thare to the boys are all
well except Ike he aint
very well just now but
I guess nothing serius
I haven’t received an
answer to my lost
letter yet I am
sory to hear that so
many of our folks were
sick I should like very
much to be thare to get
acquainted with your
cousin. you spoke in
that note you sent in
Sabin’s letter a bout our
folks sending a box if
they send one I would
like to have them send
me a pair of over alls
they would come very handy
to work in and save my
clothes tell them not to
send any pie nor cake for it
wont keep direct to Chattenooga
I cant think of any more this
time our Battallion is bu
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a magazine now don’t for
fet to write good by George
[On Envelope:]
Miss Marritte Hutchinson
Berlin Ottawa Co
Mich
