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9-15-1862
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. . .moving around so much I will send them back if I can as you need them there & I can not carry so much in my knapsacks. –we drew knapsacks last Saturday eve.— Your letter did me much good as it contained a great deal of information. I was very much surprised to learn that you did not here from me for so long, as I have written four letters home since coming to Ky. you have no doubt rec’d them by this time. was also surprised to know that you had written so often, as I got no letter from home since Aug. 30th untill day before yesterday, when yours of the 4th came to hand. I also got one from Florie, & one from Mary Eliza the same day & yesterday I rec’d one from Ralph Naylor. He said that Pa had made arrangements by which he would get posesion of that farm, this fall, and that you were going to move in two weeks. he seemed very much rejoiced to think that you were coming up there to live, If you do it will stop your going to school at Ham, won’t it, or will you stay and board with Florence, she would like that would’nt she, I suppose they will have good school at Monroe, however, & you and Chalmers can go there, can’t you? or is it to far from that farm. While you are at school improve your time, & make the best of it. It seems that our commanders are bound to keep this brigade moving, as we have moved our camp 4 times since coming to the vicinity of Louisville. We are in the 1st Brigade, 1st Division army of Ky. under Brigader Gen Ward, I dont know what Brigade Col Anderson has or will have, as he has been sick ever since we came here, being out to camp this morning for the first time. We had a grand bore the other day in the shape of a review, of our brigade, ordered by Gen Jackson The day before, it came off we drew 5 days rations, two of which we cooked & packed in our haversacks, and were called up the next morning at three oclock, took down our tents, packed up every thing and loaded it in the wagons, formed line of battle at daylight and after standing about an hour were started toward town, where we all expected to take the boats for Cin or the railroad for some other place, reached town about 9 oclock, where we formed in line on Broadway and were compelled to stand for about three hours in that position awaiting the arrival of Gen Jackson to review us. After he rode past, we was started on and marched down broadway to twelth st. on it to Main st. up Main st. in sight of the river, but not toward it, on we went till all hopes of going on the river was given up, and now we thought certain we were going to have to take a long march, went on a while through the hot sun & dust without halting, till we began to see that we were going back the same way we came in. Well to make the story short we were marched right back to the camp we had left in the morning. Not more than 100 men coming in with the regimental officers, the rest having had to drop out from sheer exaustion & heat. (we had not been allowed to rest all day.)
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U.S. Civil War 1861-1865, Louisville, Kentucky, Exhibits