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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Riengy Miss September 5 62
Dear Uncal
I am now in Dixie when I wrote befo
re I was in a hurry we left Colum-
bus at 9 oclock in the morning
and took the cars and went to
corrinth a distance of 160 miles
through Kentucy one of the hardest
looking tacts of country you
ever saw it is allmos a wilderness
I did not se a place on the whole rout
that would deserve th wane of a
village but two Jackson and cor-
rinth the country looks desolate and
the people look as if they did not
care whither they lived or died
and there seams to be a want of ener-
gy and a carelessness whitch I cannot
account for no describe there houses
ar build of logs just like your loog
barns in Mich. with two Chimn-
ey’s one in each end ad the open
spare in the middle they use as
siting room the whole distance
from Collumbus to Corrinth it
is a sort of red clay almost as
red as brick and the pools of water
along the road sides is as red as
water whitch you have seen in old
rusty pots and sometimes we went
10 and 12 miles without seeing a house
the timber is oak and clem hick-
ory basswood and good mery other kinds
that I did not know al of a stunted
nature and good for nothing all the
way through Kentuckey I could
hardly tell whither the Negroes or
the whites looks the worst corrinth
is quite a little town but it is no
better than the rest as far as beauty
is concerned for the streets ar not
paved and there is noboddy to water
them and the dust flies in a cloud
through then all day and our grand
rapids merchants would think
the streets of corrinth a hard place
to exhibit there fancy dry goods in
when we arrived in corrinth we went
rite up to head quarters and got our
supper it was cooked and served by
counterbands as black as night I did
not se but two white women in Corr-
inth and they wer in the hospital
we came from corrinth to the regiment
in a train of government wagons draw
by six mule teens I got to the regiment
a bout 3 oclock yesterday and saw
Tom he looks pretty hard but he
says that he is getting better quite
fast I want you to send me about
$2 worth of postage stamps they
would not let me go out of the Barracks in Detroit and and in
cairo and caollumbus they had not
go eny and in corrinth they want
sell eny without the silver and
and so I have not got eny atall
Tom got the letter with the stamps
I sent him and I do not think
that there is donot think there
is eny danger in sending them
but I think that you had better
send $100 worth at a time
Nomore at present
Form John
Wasson
