of guns he had seen & I had never told the boys that the 

 Col would inspect their guns therefore tlie inspection by 

 the Col was entirely a surprise to the boys. I was sorry 

 to hear of the death of Capt Harvey. Write soon to your 

 Brother Roe 



Dear Brother & Family Camp near luka Aug 17th 1862 



I am now in luka 25 or 30 miles East of Corinth on 

 the Charleston & ^Memphis Railroad. I have been sick I 

 was taken with the fever on 26th of July & had the 

 fever all the time for ten days. I stayed in camp untill 

 the 2ond of August abd then I went to Jacinto to a 

 hotel and stayed there untill the 9th of August and then 

 started for luka and rode all night in a ambiance and 

 arrived at luka on the morn of the 10th then a Lt from 

 the 22ond 2nd Regt came and told me that Jack was in 

 Corinth & was going to stay there untill he heard where 

 I was. I then got on the cars and went to Corinth but 

 did not find him untill next morn the 11th as he had been 

 out to the 9th Illinois & stayed all night he & I then came 

 to luka. he started home yesterday. I have been boarding 

 at a private lious here in luka untill yesterday Eve I 

 came and reported for duty. 



You say the last I wrote vras from camp near Jacinto 

 we went into camp there on the 4th of July & remained 

 untill the 4th of August with the exception of the 7th 

 July Genrl Asboth was slightly frightened about 7 miles 

 from us and sent us word to come & reinforce him as 

 he expected an attack Ave loaded our teams all up & sent 

 the teams ba.ck from camp to 4 miles of Corinth. We 

 marched to the road about Vo mile from camp and then 

 received orders to march back to camp which we did, 

 and laid without tents that night but next day the teams 

 came back & we pitched tents & drilled & had schools in 

 Tactics & regulations untill 4th of August when our Bri- 

 gade was ordered to March to Bay Springs (but I was 

 sick and did not go Avith them) where they tore up a cot- 

 ton mill & took some cotton & took some 20 prisoners 



