Camp Grand Rapids
March 6th /64
Dear Wife and Children I
am well and hope this will 
find you the same I am hear
and shall remain hear until
we get our pay which they 
say will be this week tell
Lewis not to forget his 
promise to me and if i Do
not leave hear in 4 or 5
Days i will write again
and you had not better
write to me until you hear
from me again i have seen
Nick Gramm hear and
some others from [Locke?]  and
and i found one of Old Pains
boys hear we did not leave
corunna till saturday

afternoon we have soldiers
fare hear i suppose but
if i ever get aney wons
i shall be satisfied but
this is enough for this time 
Deek and Shellman are well
Clark we left at Corunna
tell the boys to be good
and mind their mother
but again tell Louis
to be shure and make a 
move to get us out on a 
furoo as they give non
hear unless some won
interseeds for them as
i wond to arange some
of my buiness before i
leave the state as well
as to see my wife and
little ones a short time
before i go south

Give my best respects
to all enquiring friends
and now i must quit i
dont no as you can read
this as my pensil is poor
and i am writing this on
my knee if you do write
Direct to 14th Michigan
Inft. Camp Lee Grand
Rapids Mich