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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
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Chattonooga Tenn
September 18th 1864
Dear Sister Met
I received your
welcome letter of the ninth
and was more than glad to
get another letter from you
for I began to think you
had given up writing to
me for I haven’t had one be
fore in two or three weeks any
way but it was welcome when
it did come.
we are still staying
at Chattanooga yet and not
much prospects of gitting a
way very soon we got started
once and got as far as
Dalton Georga when we got
orders to return we went
by rail and was gone all
night and found our
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back here in the morning
so we did not have a chance
to see much of the country
I was very sory to hear that mother
was sick but hope she will soon
be well a gan. I am glad to
hear of your going to school
this fall and hope you will
have a good time I am a going
to school this fall to but
it will be the school of the
solger but I am in hopes by
next fall I can go to a
diferant school our army
or haveing pretty good luck
now and every thing is giving
a long well I think if the
copper heads don’t get to
thick up north and I scarcely
think they will I should
have liked to have been to
the exhibition first rate
and to the wedding
I dont see why you could not
have invited me but you
did not tell me what they
changed your name to.
it would have been fun if
you had got some music on
the subject. O dear I don’t
hardly know what to write
next you know I told you
when I came a way that I
was a poor letter writer and
I guess you will find it out
in this letter any way.
I havent seen Ike nor the
rest of the boys since last
spring yes I did to I will
take it back I saw Ike a
bout a month and a half a
go he was her to Chattanooga
but I herd from the boys
last night they were all
well
I believe Sabe keeps
well yet and full of
fun as ever we have been
haveing a lot of new recruits
laitly one of their names
is George Scott only thare
aint any W. in it so
you will have to be very
careful and write the middle
letter so that he wont
claim them. we bgin to have
a little cooler weather
now than we have had but it
is warm enough yet to sute
one I cant think of any
more to write this time but
I will try and do better next
time don’t forget to write
for I am always anxious to
get letters from you good by for
this time George Scott
