Tell our folks
to send me
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some more [illegible] for ^ 

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I have plenty 
of stamps at 
present    

Headquarters Camp Lexington
18th Reg’t Mich Volunteers, Comp. H
No 6          Oct. 6, 1862
Dear Sister,
       How do you
do to day I am well
some of the boys have
got something of colds
I have not been trou
bled with colds since
I have been in the army
have been very lucky
the rest of the boys are
eating their dinner but
I have just received and
read your letter number
6 and rather than to
be in doubt I will let
my dinner go a while
and answer your letter
yesterday we came back 
from the city we were
down there for provost
guard I wish that they
had let us be there for
we did not have much
to do and had matress
es to sleep on in a room
                                           d
when we were not on guar^
we could take our guns
with fixed bayonets and
go where were a mind to
Charlie came down and
we went out to the

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winter vest there is going to 
be a box sent from [crossed out] [over]
Wilbers or about there so the

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boys say tell George and [illegible] that I will write 

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to them next that paper
Cymetary we got some little
pieces of Henry Clays
monument I am going
to send that that I got
home (to you) I mean I
call that home when I
speak about your home
also some seed that I 
got from a bush I 
do not know what
it is you can plant
it and then you can
find out what it is
some kind of flowers
I should think by the
looks of the bush. it is
the handsomest place that 
I ever saw that is a grave
yard some very nice trees
of most all kinds to
some very nice monuments

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Tell E.J. the next time that
there is a chance to send my

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with those things in came all right
besides Clay’s that is
the greatest pile of stone
that I ever saw in any
such shape I mean. on
top there  is a man carved
out. about what you
said that night that you
went to Mr Waltons
I have not thought of
it as I know since I 
left home I forgive as
I wish to be forgiven
so I trust that we are
all right on the goose
question. but such is not a
laughing matter for such
expiressions cut close if
one does not mean what 
they say and I presume you
have had more reason to
complain that I have but now

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is no time to worry about that you

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are in Mich and I am 
Ky so wait till I come
home. Charlie got a letter 

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from home to day so Nels Rice just to let me 

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but this is about full so good
                bye for this time 
                                 James