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Regiment: 9th Michigan Cavalry
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures: William T. Sherman
Dec the 20 1864
In camp near Syvana Ga
on the sea cost
Wall now Sina i once
more seat myself to pen
this to you to let you
know i am stil a live
and in good helth and
hope this will find you
the same the boys here is
all well and in good spiret
Wall now Sina I will tell you
what i see yesterday Wall i was
ordered to hich up my teem and
go out to the cost and there i
saw our guns bots firing into
a reb fort and our fleet lay
all a long the bank thick it is
a fine site i wish you could
see them i went on bord of one
and got my dinner and it
was the first warm meal i
have eat sence i left ky and
any one can git oysters there by
picking them up on the shore
oyrings is here to but they are
sower ones Sina i wish i could
send you some any thing any
one wants here they can git it
Wall now Sina i will tell you what
for a time we had a coming here
from Atlanta we started from
ther the 15 of Nov and reached her
the 17 of this munth and traveld
nite and day to but we had
no troubel until we got in
a bout 80 miles of here then
the rebs met ous then we had some
hard fits our rig lost 30 men
in a little time but now
Sherman is a giving the rebs
fits at syvana here and will
take the place before long now
one division of the 15 corps
charged one fort here the other
day and lost some men
and took 400 rebs in the
fort 16 peaces of artillery heavy
guns to they are fiting all the
time Wall now Sina i got
3 letters from you the other
Day and answerd them all in
one Wall Sina that money
i did not send for the
express was closed bfore i got
down to town so I will trust
some in letters from here
i will put 5 dollars in each
letter at a time Sina I will
say for you to use as much
as you wanto for it is what i
send it to you for Sina them
potgraphs you wanted i cant
git of the oficers for here is no
chance for to git them taken
Sina Now Sina i wish you could
See the rice grow here it
looks just like ots and grows
just a bout as big as ots
we feed our teems on it here
they cut it just as we cut
any grain and bind it into
bundels and stack it like
wheat or ots and thrash it
as we do any grain Wall
I will close for want of
room by saying Good
By Sina
from
A. H. W. to L. M. W.
rite soon drect the
Same No Drect to
Fort McCallaster Ga
rite Soon
This is rice Sina
one head
