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them before they left the Re^'t. On the 20th of March by 

 noon the Jeannie Deans v/as earryincr the 59th smoothly 

 down the father of Waters bound for Dixie all with rather 

 a sad heart as ever moment the distance between us and 

 our home friends increased. All passed off very smoothly 

 landed at Cairo Paducah & Ft Donnelson each place either 

 to load or unload some frei.^ht. Jack left us at Cairo and 

 started for home. He arrived at Clarksville Tenn on the 

 night of tlx' 22ond and next morning was informed by 

 the Capt of the boat that he could proceed no" farther 

 as his boat was too large to cross the shoals and we were 

 then sixty miles from Nashville. So we disembarked ther 

 and found comfortable barracks for the men in an old 

 Tobbacco warehouse, and the Officers the majority found 

 lodgings at Moores Hotel. Clarksville has been a place 

 of 3000 inhabitants in times of peace. 



We remained at Harksville untill noon on the 25th when 

 we embarked on the Emperor a very lia-ht draft boat, at 

 about 11 that night we reached the foot of the shoals and 

 agreeable to Contract the man had to get off and March 

 around the shoals which by the way fell to me to be the 

 Conmiander, I sent out a detachnKmt of bovs under com- 

 mand of a Sergeant to bring me in a guide, the first one 

 they found, They soon returned with two boys mounted 

 on a mule. And we were again started on the marcli this 

 part the boys did not admire much as they could not 

 think their weight would make much difference to the load 

 of the boat. We arrived at the landing above the shoals 

 where the boat was to take us on by 3 A M and had to 

 bivouac there untill 1 P M when the boat arrived. They 

 had some trouble in coming over the shoals but suffered 

 no damage. 



We arrived at Nashville that evening the 26th of Afarch, 

 and put the men in Soldiers home and the Officers put 

 up at City Hotel part of them. We remained there untill 

 the 31st of March at noon when we started off on foot 

 for this place only one wagon to the Eegi: haveing sent 

 most of our baggage by R.K And on the 15th of this 

 month we arrived safe here which is five miles from 

 Cleavland & 25 from Chattanooga and on Knox^^ille & 

 Chattanooga RR. We marched ever day with tlu' excep- 



