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Regiment: 9th Michigan Cavalry
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All come out here Christmas or New Years now
wont you Fore & Jake you & Lila Rosa * Mine and
L-A-R-l
Nove the 24 1864
Waterloo City
Dear Cousin
I received your kind and
welcome and was glad to hear from you but
was realy provoked at Jake and Frone not
coming out here Frone did not intende to come
I dont believe and I would shake her if I
were there and Lila I have seen waiting every
day for her ever since Hank came but I dont
even get aletter from her where is she write
and tell me I wrote her the last letter but
she has not answered it nos Frone has not
eather.
Well Cinna I do feel very bad inded
you aske what the mater. why Hank has
gone he started last Monday night on the
5 oclock train and how lonely I am now
how I do wish that you had one out here
while he was at home I wrote to Lila when
he first came expecting that she would come
out here right away and to you requesting
you all to come out here. the reason that
we could not come out there Hank did not
get his pay and he borrowed money for
me and she thought that he could not
come that way but he said that if he had
got paid paid he should have gone out there
by all means he has 5 or 6 hundred dollars
coming to him but that dont do us any food at
the presant time and so by that means we
coul dnot go.
[ ? ] Hasie is married she
sent me her wedding card also her & her
husbands Photo. quite a pretty pair I think I
think her husband has gone to the army
Franky is getting better but not able to be out
yet we are having very cold weather here now
has Eliza come home yet she has not answerd
my last letter and I dont think that she
[ ? ]
got it I think
[ ? ] folks are her mean
about her letters dont you?
Write soon and Oblige your Cousin Lydia we
are all going to church to day it being thanksgiving
day
