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Regiment: 20th Michigan Infantry
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Near Fredericksburg, Virginia
January 23, 1863
Dearest Frankie,
I had the pleasure to received yours and Alls letters last night. I wrote to
All this forenoon but I couldn’t let the day go without writing to my dear little
wife though I wrote a letter to you the day before yesterday and yesterday. I am
very glad to hear that you are so much better and I am in hopes your health will
be after this for it makes me home sick to know that you are sick. You say
dearest you want to see if I have got to be a lofer. No my dear not I unless you
call laziness !offing. I believe I have taken one swallow of liquor since I have
been in the Army and that was when I first came down. Lieutenant Sergent had
some and I did not feel very well and I took a little but I have had chances to
drink. I was on guard in front of the commissaries tent New Years Eve and was
offered some and one day when I was detailed to load rations the Quarter Master
offered me some but I did not touch it. You need not be afraid of Charlie. I
might stay in the Army all my life and I would not make any difference to me
but I don’t believe you are worried much about me getting to be a loffer. I
should think the folks in Mich were getting in a musical way all the once but let
them have some of their near friends in this way and they wouldn’t feel so
musical I reckon but I guess if this war continues a few years more .. will be
payed out. It is a strange thing to me how folks can flirt dance and dress and
enjoy them selves when the country is overflowing with wretchedness and
misery. Let then come down here and see 3 or 4 poor fellows put in rough boxes
and carried to their long homes or be on a battlefield under fire of the cannon
when every shot perhaps blasts the hopes of wives, sisters and mothers and it
will make them feel different but nice folly and wickedness seems to be the order
of the day. Well Frankie I guess I must close for I am getting tired of writing for I
wrote a long letter to All. Answer soon. From your husband. Give my love to
all.
Charlie to his little wife.
