Quote: Camped at Pulaski, Tenn. Nov. the 14th 1864 Dear Father and Mother I embrace the presant opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you no that me and George is well and hardy at presant and hope this will find you in the same health. I have not received a letter from you for about a month. I received one from Martin today. He stated that he was a goant to start to Quincy the next morning. If he gits to come home or if you git to see him tell him that I have lifted that note for his watch. He told me not to write till he rote again for he did not no where to have the letter directed. I told you in my other letter that George and I was a goant to send after a Henry Rifle. We took another notion and that we woulden send after them. So I will send ten dollars in this letter which will one hundred dollars from me and fifty for George. I sent the check for one hundred and forty out two or three days ago. I want you to write as soon as you git it and let me no and let me no when you git this ten dollars. Tell Martin that I received a letter today for him and as soon as I find out where to direct them to I will send it to him. The weather is gitting tolerble cold here. Well it is now all most ten o'clock by my watch so I will close for tonight. You must excuse me for not following the lines as I have a very poor light to write by. So I will close by asking you to write as soon as you git this. I remain your son as ever so good by from Mikel Culler to Father and Mother End quote. Six weeks later, Michael Culler was dead. On the 30th of November 1864, at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, Michael Culler was shot in the right thigh. His left leg was shattered by a musket ball. He was taken to hospital in Nashville, Tennessee where his left leg was amputated. Michael died from the amputation about one month later on 28 December 1864, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was eighteen years old and had served his country during the Civil War for two years and four months. Michael was only sixteen years old when he enlisted with his older brothers. The army musterole shows him as twenty though two affidavits state his birth as 28 January 1846, and one of his father's letters states that he was eighteen when he died. Jacob and Nancy (Martin) Culler had five sons. They all served their country during the great rebellion and all were wounded. One was killed during the war, another died later of his injury and the other three survived. I know that Smith and Martin Culler survived but do not know the death dates of John or George to know which of them was the other survivor. (Sally Gustafson, 8 May 2002) Sally