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to no sure haveing already marched 8 miles and pushed wagons 2 miles but there was no help for it so we started, but by this time it was 4 oclock but we ware ware in for it so away we went and at 9 Oclock last night we overtook the Regiment where it had encamped 4 miles this side of Boling Green, where we are laying by today resting and awaiting to get across the River. News come a few minutes since that we ware to go on tomorrow morning at 8 oclock which news the boys hailed with shouts of joy forgetting all about their sore feet, and 3 hard days march. It is no doubt but what we are bound for Nashville and that in a hurry as there appears to be some urgent necessity there or thereabouts but what that necessity is we do not know but by what I can learn there is a prospect of the Rebels disporting our way to the above named place.  You perhaps know more of what is going on there than we do as I have not saw a paper for 6 or 8 days. I have not been to Boling Green yet, as I have been busy making out muster rolls, which we have to make out evry 2 months pay or no pay  Charles Burgess has just returned from the river where they have been fixing acrossing, and says that both the turnpike and Rail road bridges are burned down and he reports some heavy fortifications which the rebels had built.  The whole country for the last 20 miles has the appearance of haveing been occupied by the rebels encampments and to judge by the evacuated camps they must have had a verry large army in this region.  I was talking with an old citizen who lives on the road where the rebels had ploughed it up. He said he asked them what good they expected to do by by that and their reply was that when it rained it would become verry muddy and when the Yankees come on here and got whipped that they would retreat that far and there the wagons would stick fast and they would capture them, but I am thinking the yankees will take another road when they go back and that they will not be so pushed but what they will be able to take, the wagons with them, but enough of this for this time The country ever since we crossed Green River is quite fertile and for the last 20 miles it is as beautiful as I ever saw and is in the highest State of cultivation. The country is some rolling. The farms are verry large and I presume worked altogether by the Slaves although we saw but verry few of them

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to no sure haveing already marched 8 miles and pushed wagons 2 miles but there was no help for it so we started, but by this time it was 4 oclock but we ware ware in for it so away we went and at 9 Oclock last night we overtook the Regiment where it had encamped 4 miles this side of Boling Green, where we are laying by today resting and awaiting to get across the River. News come a few minutes since that we ware to go on tomorrow morning at 8 oclock which news the boys hailed with shouts of joy forgetting all about their sore feet, and 3 hard days march. It is no doubt but what we are bound for Nashville and that in a hurry as there appears to be some urgent necessity there or thereabouts but what that necessity is we do not know but by what I can learn there is a prospect of the Rebels disporting our way to the above named place. You perhaps know more of what is going on there than we do as I have not saw a paper for 6 or 8 days. I have not been to Boling Green yet, as I have been busy making out muster rolls, which we have to make out evry 2 months pay or no pay Charles Burgess has just returned from the river where they have been fixing acrossing, and says that both the turnpike and Rail road bridges are burned down and he reports some heavy fortifications which the rebels had built. The whole country for the last 20 miles has the appearance of haveing been occupied by the rebels encampments and to judge by the evacuated camps they must have had a verry large army in this region. I was talking with an old citizen who lives on the road where the rebels had ploughed it up. He said he asked them what good they expected to do by by that and their reply was that when it rained it would become verry muddy and when the Yankees come on here and got whipped that they would retreat that far and there the wagons would stick fast and they would capture them, but I am thinking the yankees will take another road when they go back and that they will not be so pushed but what they will be able to take, the wagons with them, but enough of this for this time The country ever since we crossed Green River is quite fertile and for the last 20 miles it is as beautiful as I ever saw and is in the highest State of cultivation. The country is some rolling. The farms are verry large and I presume worked altogether by the Slaves although we saw but verry few of them