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Sunday evening Aug 30th /63
I had no chance to send this today
so I will write a few more lines
I have not been [York?] to meating
to day but wish I had
Hank & me
have been
out in the 
country
riding around

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(dont I wish I was at Home
to night or near thare)

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we found some of the most
peaches I ever see I eat all I
wanted and thought of you
come down to my house
and get some the front room
is large and there is plenty of room O.E.G

	Head Quarters,
   Com. A, Fourth Reg. Michigan Vol. Cav.
	Camp, At Smithe Cross Roads Aug 29th, 1863

Six miles from Ten.. River & 30 miles
from Chattanooga
					once more
I take my pen to write you a 
few lines in answer to yours of
the 17th which I received last
night we have come over the
moutains & are in East Tenn..
now we have had a number
of skirmishes with the rebles laitly
we have mad them get out of
the way not without some loss
our regiment lost ten men at
Sparta it is a place on the
mountains a little larger than

Mooreville two out of our company
ware wounded thare one of them was
shot from his horse the other was
dismounted and stood but a few
feet from me he was shot through
the thigh he is like to get well the
other one was shot in the neck
the ball going down back of his 
lung he is able to walk round
and is like to get well it looks 
hard to see men shot down in
this way yet it dont give one
such bad feelings as you would think
it would the rebles have a large
force on the other side of the river
wating for us to cross I suppose
when old Rosy.. get ready we
shall go into them we have been
wating here a numbe of days for
rations the rations come last
night and I guess we shall
move before long it dont make

much differance to me how
quck we are having the nicest
kind of weather for soldiering not
much rain in the last four weeks
we dont pitch our tent nights
three or four rails make a bed
good enough for any soldier
we live well part of the time
have been short of rations lately
and have to forge a goodeal it
dont hurt our feelings much to
tak from the Rebles thare is a
good many Union men in this
part they had a great time the
other day after we come here men
women & childern come together &
raised a pole with the sars & Stripes
they had some speaches made by there
own cittizen & our officers some of
them spoke they had a first rate
time our band made music
for them thare was some good looking

Girls they acted green [I?] guess
neve heard much muscic before 
if you new what a mean place
I have got to write you would
not blame me for stoping
the wind blows and the dirt
gets all over the paper
			     fellow
what makes you provoke a ^ by
asking him to come to a picnic
for you no I dont want to
be thare I have neglected writing
for the mail has been nether
way from this place the last letter
I wrote befo this was at
McMinnville & 16th I will
write oftener if I have a chance
the boys from our way are all
well and fell first rate
dont use my name in any
way when you comence a letter
to me sometimes thare is a good many
looking on when we receive letters  Othniel