Head Quarters 6th Mich Cavalry 2d Brigade 3d Div. Cav. Corps Berea Church Va Aug. 30/63 Captain. I have the honor to respectfully ask a leave of absence of thirty days. My reasons are illness. I would respectfully refer to Surgeon’s Certificate attached.
Whitworth, William G. – July 16, 1863
New Berlin, Maryland July 16th /63Dear Father & Mother Make no doubt but your anxiety for me will be very great having no chance to write to you and if I had I dont know how I should have got them mail I mail one more than a week ago but am unable to say how far it went for there as been so much trouble along the railroads that mail trains could not proceed. I have written three letters since we left Virginia in fact I have embraced every opportunity to inform you of my whereabouts
Kettle, Frederick S. – 1863
washington tues 13 1863 my dear friend kate I take my pen in hand to let you know that I am well and hope that this will find find you the same I seen gorge powers the other day he got a leter from Sarah the day be fore he was here
Mills, Samuel D. – May 21, 1863
Camp near Farefax V.A. May 21st /63 Dear Friend Kate I will now try to answer your letter of the 14th which I received this morning and was glad to hear from you it has binn some time since I have had any letter from any one well Kate I am no more in Capt Thompson Co.
Mills, Samuel D. – May 3, 1863
Page 1 Camp Stick in the mud near Farefax V.A. May 3d 1863 Dear Friend Kate Kate I thought that it would be a good way to pass off the time to write a few lines to you it is most night and time goes slow to day and to night I have got to stand guard I have to stand guard every other day and have to burn brush to boot but I play out on that most always
Mills, Samuel D. – April 29, 1863
Camp stick in the mud near Farefax, V.A. April 29th 1863 Dear Friend Kate I received your letter of the 20th and was glad to hear from you for I dont get many letters since we left Camp Gray I havnt had but one letter in two weeks and thats was the one that I got from you I dont think the male comes through strait or else the folks dont write
Sharp, James W. – April 27, 1863
Freedom Hill Fairfax Co. Va. April 27th, 1863 Dear Parents, I received a letter from you a few days ago and I am going to try and write a few lines in response thereto, but I think that I shall not write but a few. I was sorry to hear that you were both rather poorly. I have not any news to write this time any more than what has transpired among ourselves for the last two or three weeks, for you see by the heading that I am not in Camp at present, for we are out doing picket duty, and I think that it is one of hardest duty that is imposed on a soldier, for we have to turn out rain or shine, and when we come in at night we do not know whether we can stay in or not.
Mills, Samuel D. – April 17, 1863
Camp in the Woods near Farefax April 17th 1863 Dear Friend Kate I now take the oportunity of writing a few lines to let you know that I am stil where folks live and die I got so that I filt prety smart and went out dores and there took some more cold just for a change and last night I had cind of a rough time that made me think of Grand Rapids for a minute but I am in hopes that I will get so as to go to the Regiment in a short time
Mills, Samuel D. – April 7, 1863
Camp in the Woods near Farefax,, April 7th 1863 Dear Friend Kate it is with pleasure that I am a going to try and write a few lines to you to let you know the way that I am situated and the reasons why I have not answered your letters I have had two from you and one from Olive and Sarah and some from home
Mills, Samuel D. – March 20, 1863
Washington D.C. Camp Gray March 20th /63 Dear Friend Kate I received your letter with much pleasure but was sorry to hear so bad news as it brot but you must take it as eeasy as posible it is true you lost a good father but you didnt expect to always have him to live
Mills, Samuel D. – March 11, 1863
Washington D.C. Camp Gray March 11th 1863 Absent though not forgoton .. … … Friend … Kate I have not had any letter from you in some time and I herd that your father was sick and I thought that a few lines wouldnt do you any hurt you promised to write every sunday and I guess that you have forgot it I for the last to sundays or I should have had one from you
Whitworth, William G. – March 1, 1863
Camp Gray March 1st Dr Father & Mother When your letter arrived here in Camp I was absent. We had marching orders last Wednesday night at 12 oclock to be ready by 2 oclock that morning so we went to work rolling up our blankets and puting up feed for our selves and Horses.
Mills, Samuel D. – February 28, 1863
Washington D.C. Feb. 28th 1863 Dear Friend. Kate. your letter was received with pleasure about one hour ago and I am agoing to answre it with the pleasure and tell you some news our reg was ordered to pack this duds and be ready to move in half of an hour this was last wednesday night
Mills, Samuel D. – February 10, 1863
Washington D. C. Feb 10th/63 Dear Friend I am now going to write a few lines to pas off time maybee you get more letters from me than you can find time to read but if I dont get any I am going to write til I do I got a letter from Louisa yesterday or it was pretended to be from her but it dont look lik her hand writing
Moon, Robert A. – February 8, 1863
Washington DC Feb 8 63 Head Qtrs. Co I 6th Regt. Mich. Cavalry Estemed friends Uncle your very friendly and most welcom leter is recived with great pleasure and contends notice tho I have delaid writing on acount of my business being so urgent but I have a very little time to spare on this beautifull sabath day My dear uncle you have spoken of many things in your leter that I will not be able dwell very lengthly upon but I will endever to give som reply tho it will bee very short
Kettle, Frederick S. – February 6, 1863
washington Camp gray feb 6 1863 my dear fried kate I take my pen to let you know that I am well and hope that this will find you the same I reseved your leter of the 26 and was glad to hear from you sam and ream is sick john says that he has roat roat you a letter
Mills, Samuel D. – February 1, 1863
Febuary 1st 1863 Well I am not don yet this is the next morning and I in the same fix that I was yesterday only I am not as tired as I was last knight but my head aches som this morning I went in and saw Ream and he looks fit you may bet but I wont write any more now
Mills, Samuel D. – January 31, 1863
Washington Jan 31 1863 Dear friend Kate I have got my blankets up in a heap and my over coat and pilow up to the head of my bed so that I can Rest on them and am going to try to answer your letter that I got not more than an hour ago and was glad to hear that you was well. But I am on the gain
Mills, Samuel D. – January 19, 1863
Washington Jan 19 1863 Dear friend Kate I am agoing to send Louisa a letter in your name and you can guess what it is for and I thought that you wouldnt like a letter there was something for you in it and I thought that I would like to see you or hear from you every day but it hant to be so
Mills, Samuel D. – January 18, 1863
Washington Jan 18 1863 Dear friend Catharine your letter of the 11th I received on the 15th and was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was at home and I wish that I was there now for I am sick and the doctor says that I will halfto go to the Hospital in the morning if I dont get any beter it is with a bad cold on my lungs and they are awful sore
6th Michigan Cavalry – December 31, 1862-February 28, 1863
6th Michigan Cavalry Muster, Company I, December 31, 1862 to February 28, 1863
Whitworth, William G. – December 28, 1862
Washington City Dec 28th /62 Dear Emily Two weeks ago to day we arrived in this place and we have moved twice. We encamped the second time last Thursday. We have got a good location were we are. Our last camp was in a low place and very mudy. We have moved about a half a mile from our last encampment. We have been very buisy diging trenches around our tents to keep them dry when it rains. We are haveing some very nice dry wheather for the past week. We have just broke ranks after falling in line for inspection.
Rogers, Remus – December 22, 1862
Union Forever Mondy Dec 22d 1862 Cathrine Hamilton! I am in washington we are camped on meridian hill in a grove of Oaks about three miles from the Potomac and about one from the white house we can look all over the city
Mills, Samuel D. – December 15, 1862
United States Capitol. 6th Reg’t Michigan Mounted Rifles, Col. Gray. Company … … A Washington Dec 15 1862. DC Miss Catharine Hamilton I thought that I would wright you A few lines to let you know what A nice ride we had Coming over the Aligana mountains we folowed the Junietta River about fifty miles and then we came to the susquehanah and we folowed that about as far as we did the other and it is the niceest River I ever crost crosed