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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Franklin Tenn
June the 1st /63
today I send $50 00 by express whitch you
will get at berlin you can do what ever you think
best with it only be sure and keep an account of
all that Thomas and we sends separate and
also of all the expens you ar at in seing to all
while we ar gone so that there will be no trubble no way
we will get two months more pay soon I think
I send home also my Over Coat and Thomas
sends one Blanket whitch we ar not allowed
to carry through the Summer Campaign I will
rather send and get it in the fall or draw a new one
the box containing them will come to Berlin in
your name Wm Porter and Daniel Chapin has
got some things in to you Can I keep Chapins
things till he calls for them and send Porters home
there is Labills am of all of the things so that you can
tell them apart
John Wasson
we ar ordered to be ready
to move at a moment
warning I think we will
move forward
