June 4th 1863 Glasgow Ky
    My verry Dear and much 
neglectid Pa and Ma I now
sit down to write you a letter
for the first time in over
one week I Should have wrote
before if it was posible but
it was not we had to be on
the lookout for the March
and it took all of our time
to get prepared for it we
are in fine quarters and I
think for the summer and
so do our officers. we started
from Bowling Green Friday last
and got here Saturday night
we Marched all day the first
day in the rain and mud
ankle deep and it was hard I
can tell you however we went
13 miles the first day. and in the

morning a dubious prospect presented
its self the mud was verry deep
and thick and it was Still
raining but it made no [illegible]
we had to Start again rain or
shine. and the last day we
went 18 miles. I fell out of 
the ranks and took my time
for it. I got my lugage carried
or I never could have stood it.
when I got our journeys end
I was so Stiff I could Scarcely
Stir. the Doctors advised me
to Stay at Bowling Green but
I hated to leave the regiment
so I came with it my health
is pretty good for me but I have
a verry bad diarhea and it keeps
me verry weak all the time.
I have done no duty for quite
a length of time. I do not
buy patent Medicines but I thought
I would Send you the Knoxville

     paper as it had some
good stories in it. and an
other thing I Shun Sharks
as you rightly term them
we recieved our pay the first of this
month and I think I Shall
keep all of mine as I am 
not verry well and Shall need
considerable. I Shall drop some
of my corespondence as you
advise me to here is one dollar
which I want you to lay out
for postage stamps and send 
them to me in your next
letter as we cant get them
here. have you got your corn in 
yet write and tell me and tell
me how things go in Mich
I would Send you ten or 15
dollars but I may get a chance
to come home on a furlough
before next pay day and then I 
Should need it verry much

let Willy wear his litle
ring which I sent him and
you wear yours we have Straw
berries here now. I want you
to tell all the news and write
regular now as I have no
more to Say I will Stop
Good bie
from your
ever true and
loving son
A G Atkins
Glasgow
Kentuckey

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33                             June 4. 1863

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Dr. H.A. Atkins
Perry Shiawassee Co
Mich
PM Please send with H Lovejoy
and oblige

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[convoy?]
[illegible] 8
Mich

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