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on the Cars and soon come over and see me. T think it 

 would be well worth any ones time to ^nsit the army & 

 get to see the grand old states of Ky & Tenn which are 

 two great states, the people of Ky are the best people 

 we have ever met with since we have been soldiering, 

 they treated us like brothers almost. I shall ever remem- 

 ber the citizens of Ky I vsuppose I was one time within 

 50 miles of Uncle Abraham's & Birt & I was both anxious 

 to get there but we did not succeed. The last letter I 

 received from home it stated that Jack had sold out the 

 stable property & liad rented it out. what do you think he 

 will get at next. I must bring this to a close by asking for 

 a speedy answer give me theopinion of the people of 

 Illinois on the war question & things in general so no 

 more but as ever your brother Roe 



VII. 



Dear Brother & Familv Camp Near Nashville Tenn 



Dec 14th 1862 



I am seated in camp by mess chest, for a dsek for the pur- 

 pose of answering your knid letter which I received today 

 bearing the date of Dec 6th 62. When T wrote mv last 

 we was on the north side of Nashville & on the other 

 side of the river Cumberland, but since then we have made 

 two mooves first we marched through the city and went 

 4 miles south and went into camp between the Franklin 

 pike & Granny Wjite pike but since then we have mooved 

 camp three miles east & are now encamped between the 

 Franklin pike and Nolinsville pike about six miles from 

 to^^^l in a beautiful pasture of large trees and fine blue 

 grass whihc is very green yet. I am writing in my tent 

 without a fire and the door is open and I am sweating 

 on my forehead, while you in your cold icy country are 

 all locked in your houses by a large fire and nearly freezing 

 at that. 



Well Dan as for news there is very little. Some skirmish- 

 ing most ever day with the picketts today the picketts 

 on the Franklin pike had a skirmish we lost I believe 

 some four wagons but this is only a rumor & I shall 

 not vouch for its truthfulness. I am g-lad to hear that 



