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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Carters Station, Middle Tenn. July 15th, 1864
Dear friend
I take this opertunity to acknowledge the receip of your kind and welcome letter of the 4 of the month. I am well as usual and was laying the the shade of a large tree when the cars brought me three letters among them yours. It is one of the graitest pleasures that a Soldier engages is to get a letter from friends at home. But you spoke about how I spent the 4 of July I will tell I sent in Chattanooga the day was verry warm. Some of us went up on Lookout Mountain. We went out on the look out point from whitch with the ade of a glass can be seen 7 states of the Union. It is a verry fine sight to look at. We left the front on the 2
nd day of June got to Franklin on the 11
th of July. We turned our horses over to other regiments and are now going guard duty on the railroad till they get new horses for us agane. The regiment is strung along the road between Nashville and Collumbia, a company in a place a distance of about 40 miles. This is one of the finest localetys in the South.
There is a good many Bushwhackers all around here but they do not do anything more than steal horses and rob a citizen and the like. If they get any of the boys out alone they will sometimes fire on them. I saw Isaac Roseberry in Chattanooga and he was the only one I saw of the regiment. Sabin was to work 15 miles up the river from the town so I did not get a chance to see him. The rest of them from our neighborhood wer at work out on the railroad about 12 miles from the town and we came right by them in the night but the train did not stop so I did not get any chance to see any of them. I would like to have seen them right well. I see that you and Martha took the 4
th verry cooly but Dan seams to have had rather bad luck I think he must feal rather cheap and feal rather sorry that the accident occured atall. I think. Dan I think he must been verry careless about it to let the team run of. The veterans all look well the trip home don Thomas a gradeal of good.
He looks well now and when he left he was quite unwell, but he says that it was verry lonesome all the time he stayed there. I think he was allmost home sick all the time he was thare from what I can learn from him. The weather is extreamly warm at present and has been for sometime. The wet weather whitch we had down in Georgia seams to have been confined to us alone the weather down was as wet as it well could be while up here in Tenn the weather has been verry dry all the time and the citazens all say they never saw such a time before and the people of Tenn told us the same thing last summer and I find that every whare els except with us it was dry. ev ery one says it is aon account of the fighting and befin to think there is something in for this makes twice that it acked just the same last summer in Tenn
and this one George. So I begin to think that heavy fighting will caus it
to rain. It is getting late and I must close and the paper is giving out so good by for the present. Please write soon and oblige your friend and wellwisher John Wasson
