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Wise-Clark family papers, December 1864-February 1865
1865-02-24-Page 03
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last, was raining all the time too - Is two or three companis of the 30th. Ky here with us yet - Some times Co "B" is left here all alone, then perhaps the next day or two there will be a Regt or so here + Capt Fidler talks some about moving his "Head-Quarters" to Elizabethtown over on the Louisville and Nashville road thinks there would not be so much danger of our communications with Louisville being destroyed - The guerillas make a good many threats that they will capture our train, if they ever do they will kill all of the guards - some days there is not more than five or six guards on the train, We have had no orders to commence drafting in this District yet - some of the counties are making strong efforts to fill their quotas without a draft and others are doing nothing at all - I still have the fun of making out enlistment papers for recruits and Substitutes every day - at the end of each month I have to
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last, was raining all the time too - Is two or three companis of the 30th. Ky here with us yet - Some times Co "B" is left here all alone, then perhaps the next day or two there will be a Regt or so here + Capt Fidler talks some about moving his "Head-Quarters" to Elizabethtown over on the Louisville and Nashville road thinks there would not be so much danger of our communications with Louisville being destroyed - The guerillas make a good many threats that they will capture our train, if they ever do they will kill all of the guards - some days there is not more than five or six guards on the train, We have had no orders to commence drafting in this District yet - some of the counties are making strong efforts to fill their quotas without a draft and others are doing nothing at all - I still have the fun of making out enlistment papers for recruits and Substitutes every day - at the end of each month I have to
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