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VI. 



Camp near Nashville Tenn 

 Nov 24th 1862 

 Direct to Capt J M Stookey 59th Ills Vols 

 9th division 3rd Brigade Army of the Cumberland 

 Nashville Tenn 



Dear Brother & Family 



It has been a long while since I have received any let- 

 ter from you & I do not know whether it is my fajilt-or 

 yours but I think I have i'\vitten last but T shaH now 

 write again and then I will be shure to have you in my 

 debt. It has been so long since I wrote to you that I do 

 not know hardly where I was at the time I last wrote 

 but I think at luka Miss. Since then we marched to this 

 place & from here went to Louisville Ky by way of Mum- 

 fordsville where I suppose you heard of the capture of 

 4800 of our men by Genrl Bragg there. We skirmished 

 a little with the enemy & then they travelled towards 

 Louisville and we were in pursuit untill we came within 

 80 miles of Louis\alle then they turned to the right and 

 we wnt on to Louisville a^ quick as possible there we re- 

 mained for several days & then started again under Genrl 

 Buell in pursuit of Genrl Bragg & after several days 

 skirmishing we came up on to him at Perryville Ky & 

 there fought the battle known now as Chaplin Hill. Our 

 Regt was engaged from an hour by sun untill way after 

 dark we was held as reserves all day and at this time 

 in the eve we was sent in to reinforce ]\[a,j Genrl McCook's 

 Corpse which was then gi^dng aw^ay we went into a hea\^' 

 fire and was soon surrounded & driven back but we fell 

 back & formed again behind a rail fence & held out 

 position there untill it grew so dark that tlie fireing en- 

 tirely ceased. I suppose you have read a great many ac- 

 counts of the fight than I can give so I will have to go the 

 next day when we followed up the enemy but they had 

 retreated through the night & we did not come on to 

 them for several days and then only came up to their 

 rear guard the evening we went into Lancaster Ky our 

 Eeg-t was in advance & we had quite a little skirmish with 

 them but no one was hurt although there was considerable 



