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03_1862-10-07-Page 03
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selves to go home from there and have not yet returned and who no doubt will be severely dealt with when they do come. Many ask me why I did not go and my answer is that I am not going until I can go honestly and boldly and not ship off like a deserter and have to go disguised to keep from being arrested while on the road. While I was at Bowling Green I wrote you a letter giveing you some of my views in regard to buying property but I see by your letters that you never received it but perhapse you have before this time therefore I will say nothing on the subject at present. I am sorry to hear that Wm Lee was so unfortunate as to be taken prisoner so soon after Starting out. While we ware laying at Cave City - 12 miles from Munfordville all the prisoners that ware taken there and paroled passed our camp one moring about 3 or 4 oclock, and some of our boys ware at the road while they were passing and one man among the prisoners asked for the 15 and being told it was there he enquired for Co. "I" and myself and one of the boys said I was out there a few rods, when he (the prisoner) said tell Lieut. Davis that you saw me and he said who are you and the answer was my name is Lee. I could think of no one els in the service of that name who knew me and I had heard that Wm was going into the Service so I concluded it must be him. So I suppose I was not mistaken. They passed right on so I had no opportunity of seeing him. By the way what Regt is he in and
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selves to go home from there and have not yet returned and who no doubt will be severely dealt with when they do come. Many ask me why I did not go and my answer is that I am not going until I can go honestly and boldly and not ship off like a deserter and have to go disguised to keep from being arrested while on the road. While I was at Bowling Green I wrote you a letter giveing you some of my views in regard to buying property but I see by your letters that you never received it but perhapse you have before this time therefore I will say nothing on the subject at present. I am sorry to hear that Wm Lee was so unfortunate as to be taken prisoner so soon after Starting out. While we ware laying at Cave City - 12 miles from Munfordville all the prisoners that ware taken there and paroled passed our camp one moring about 3 or 4 oclock, and some of our boys ware at the road while they were passing and one man among the prisoners asked for the 15 and being told it was there he enquired for Co. "I" and myself and one of the boys said I was out there a few rods, when he (the prisoner) said tell Lieut. Davis that you saw me and he said who are you and the answer was my name is Lee. I could think of no one els in the service of that name who knew me and I had heard that Wm was going into the Service so I concluded it must be him. So I suppose I was not mistaken. They passed right on so I had no opportunity of seeing him. By the way what Regt is he in and
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