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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Cavalry
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Harden Co. Tenn
May the first 1862
Kind friend, Your letter of the 19 reached me at Hamburg Tenn about the 25
th of April
but I did not have time to answer it until now. I was glad to hear from you. I am in good
health now, may this find you the same. The weather here is fine. It is like summer. The
plumbs are almost as big as a gun ball. You spoke of Mart Vanderhoof and Henry
Britain. I saw Mart last Sunday, he told me that was sick in Detroit. I was sorry for I
would like to have seen him. I was out on picket guard the night before last. We
were about two miles and a from camp and it rained like thunder and it was so
dark in the woods that we could not see our horses heads. When the 11 o’clock relief
came round, it got lost in the woods and it could not get out, so we lay all night in the
rain. The rest tried to find us but they could not. We expect to have a big fight with the
rebels before long and if the news is true that we hear it will be the last big battle
that will be fought. We heard last night that Yorktown was taken with 50 thousand
prisoners. We heard that New Orleans is taken. There is not much more news for me
to write. The fusiliers are here. Thane and Goove went to see Theo and Charley Ten
Martin is behind sick, so is Swan.
Write soon from your friend Thomas Wasson
