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Regiment: 5th Michigan Infantry
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Camp Near Petersbury
Oct the 17th 1864
Friend frank
your letter came to hand in due time
and was very glad to hear from you
I received that tobbaco that you sent
and am a thousand times oblige to
you for it Anos Button got his all
right to and he wrote to you yesterday
but as I was on guard I did not have
time to do so well
[ ? ] when I
get paid g .g again I will send you
money and have you send me tobacco
every week and then I will not have
to carry it if we should happen to
march far at a time
The regiment is not more
then fourty rods from the place
that they were when you left the
regiment but we have moved around
since that the boys in the camp
are all well and in good health at
present and all send their love to
you and would like to hear from
you but they can hear from you
by the way of button and me
well ruge the regiment has not
been engaged since you left the
company and there has not been
any killed on picket the regiment
is learger then it was when the
campagn commerreed
Right before our men took seven
tons of powder out from under
fort warren the fort to the right of
the old house that we used to picket
by the mine was completed and before
long the rebels will come down on
us and get fooled nicely
I am going to send to Detroit and
get robinson and brooks to collect
that hundred dollars bounty for
me and then you will get paid for
that tobacco that you sent to me
and I will send some money and
have you send me a half pound
once a week
well rufe I will close
by biding you good bye write
soon and receive this from your
friend Chauncy Torrey
to E R Frank
Good bye
