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Regiment: 23rd Michigan Infantry
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Our Flag is still there
and there it still stands Frankfurt Sunday 12th 1862
Dear wife. I received your letter yesterday and was very glad to hear from you and
to get he likenesses You don’t know
how glad I was to see them and
to hear that you was all well
and I was glad to hear that you
got that money all right I was
afraid that is would get mislaid
and you would not get it I am
well and hartey I have gained
6 pounds scence I left Saginaw I
weigh 168 pounds I am now at Frankfort
Kentuckey the capital of the state
Our regiment is all out except
two companyes ours and one other
are left behind to guard the
city We are on provost guard
We pick up every man that
has not got a pass and take
them to the guard house I went
up to the bearing ground today
and there I saw the nicest sight
I ever saw in my life Oh how I
wish that you was here to go
through it with me I saw
daniel boone’s monument henry
clays and a monument of all
the military men that ever
belonged to this state the
monument is from 50 to 60 feet
high and about 12 or 15 feet
square on the bottom it has
all the names of the men
that has fel in battle from
this state that is the officers
and statesmen For anyone that
loves romance they could faint
there. It is on the bank of the
Kentuckey river there little
bits of wood I took from the
stump that daniel cut himself
they red sceader and they form
one half the incloser around his
monument it is about 16 feet
high and about 5 feet on the
ground it has the inscription
engraved on it of his fighting
with two indians and of his dog house and his wife milking the
cow and of his pointing out to
one of his servants the spot where
he wanted to be buried and I
went into his cave it is a
large hole in the solid rock it
is clost to where he now is
it is the most beautiful place
I ever saw and Kentuckey is
the nicest country that I ever
saw when I came here we came
on the lake to Cleavland and
we cam through Ohio and
indiana but Kentuckey is ahead
of them all york state to boot
when this was is over I think I
shall settle down in this state
I told you that rigement was
out and the hole brigade but
I did not tel you what for
the enemy was expected here
and they went out to meat
them about 8 miles and our
company and one other was left
here to guard in citey we are
all right and we ache to have
a brush with the devils you
wrote that you hoped that I
would not desert I want to
know if you think that of me
I am not one of that kind you
can let our folks read this letter
for I do have not time to rite
another today I will soon
