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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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franklin Tenn
April the 6th 1863
Dear Uncle
your letter of the 31
st of March came to hand today
and I was verry glad to here from you Thomas got
his letter today to and I got Nets. the other day with
the sugar in it and I was some what surprised to get
sugar in a letter we ar all well and in food spirets
I am getting quite tough a gone things here ar about
the same as when I last wrote we can do plenty of rebs
any day by going out about 6 miles we ar kept verry busy
all the time we have to stand picket two times a week
besides going on a Sout sometimes evrryday when we
ar not on other duty the last day of March the day you
wrote your letter we Skirmished with them all day long
it was a verry cold day with Snow Squalls from the N.
we took about thirty prisoners from them about 4 oclock
they brought out there battery and opned upon us they
first threw some shel at us but something or other was
the matter with them they would burst as soon as they left
they gun and them they fired Sollid shot at us we had
no artillery with us to reply to them so they formed a
on us and we wer not ordered to do any more than to
skirmish with them so we fel back they kept
there batery marched all day and tried to draw
us in to it but they did not get us in to the trap so
when they Sen that they could not do it they brought
it out and let it go I sam more rebels that day than I could
shake a stick it none of our boys wer hurt a tall and we
had nobody killed all day but I think the rebs had a
good many it is one of the graites Wonders to me how so
much led can fly and hit nobody I wish you could
here one of these Shells hum a twelve pound shel
from a rifle gun you can here it hum almost two miles
and annother thing I want two tell you the horses know
the danger as well as there riders but they will go any place
there riders will go the weather has been verry cold and
backward for two weeks now but it is getting same more
plesent now but the Nights ar verry coal it fraye a little
on the first of April and the people think it is verry
strang to se past in April I here that Daniel
Wells is discharged when you write agane let me know
if you know any thing about it
I think we will get our pay to morrow we will send
it to Mr Foster you can draw it and do the best
you can with it I think we will get 6 months pay
John Wasson
