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and universaly have good houses to live in. They are all fat and appear to be in the best of humor and freely crack their jokes and repartees with the boys as they march by but none of them as yet have come shouting with joy to us expecting to be taken away About 10 miles South of Nashville we come to the first Cotton field which I had ever saw but I cannot speak in verry favorable terms of its beauties as it appears at this time of the seazon as it looks like nothing but an old field covered with dead weeds. but no doubt at other seazons it makes a beautiful sight, There appears to be considerable of wheat and corn raised here as well as cotton. The weather during the month of march here is about like it is in may in Indiana. A great may flowers are now in full bloom and a great many vegetables are planted and already up and growing; The weather has been clear and mild for Several days past, which is unfavorable to marching in one respect and that is the roads are verry dusty, which all know is disagreeable and I think if the citizens of Liberty ware to see us at the end of each days march it would be hard for them to distinguish one from another as we are all completely covered with a coating of the Soil of the Sunny South, but we always encamp near where there is plenty of water and it would amuse you to see the boys break for it as soon as we are halted and dismissed. On sunday we passed through the town of Franklin which is a very nice County Seat Today we passed through Collumbia which is a verry nice place about the size of Oxford and is also a County Seat but of what counties either of them are in you will have to consult the map for I dont know, There is a very large force on this road but how many I cannot tell but I think there must be at least 50,000 and the number of cannon it is impossible for me to tell but they can be counted by Hundreds. You perhapse know as much concerning our destination as I do but by what I can learn we will soon be in Alabama which is only 40 miles further South
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and universaly have good houses to live in. They are all fat and appear to be in the best of humor and freely crack their jokes and repartees with the boys as they march by but none of them as yet have come shouting with joy to us expecting to be taken away About 10 miles South of Nashville we come to the first Cotton field which I had ever saw but I cannot speak in verry favorable terms of its beauties as it appears at this time of the seazon as it looks like nothing but an old field covered with dead weeds. but no doubt at other seazons it makes a beautiful sight, There appears to be considerable of wheat and corn raised here as well as cotton. The weather during the month of march here is about like it is in may in Indiana. A great may flowers are now in full bloom and a great many vegetables are planted and already up and growing; The weather has been clear and mild for Several days past, which is unfavorable to marching in one respect and that is the roads are verry dusty, which all know is disagreeable and I think if the citizens of Liberty ware to see us at the end of each days march it would be hard for them to distinguish one from another as we are all completely covered with a coating of the Soil of the Sunny South, but we always encamp near where there is plenty of water and it would amuse you to see the boys break for it as soon as we are halted and dismissed. On sunday we passed through the town of Franklin which is a very nice County Seat Today we passed through Collumbia which is a verry nice place about the size of Oxford and is also a County Seat but of what counties either of them are in you will have to consult the map for I dont know, There is a very large force on this road but how many I cannot tell but I think there must be at least 50,000 and the number of cannon it is impossible for me to tell but they can be counted by Hundreds. You perhapse know as much concerning our destination as I do but by what I can learn we will soon be in Alabama which is only 40 miles further South
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