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Sunday, Nov. 8th 1863 Dear Parents; I wrote to you last Friday from Louisville and as we are stopping over Sunday here in Nashville with nothing else to do I thought I would send to you another. We stayed in Louisville over night and started for Nashville next morning at 7. Got here last evening at dark. They took us to a large brick building that is being used as a solders barracks. It was built by General Zolicoffer for a hotel. It is five stories high and contains 350 rooms both great and small, so you can see that it was once a great institution. We expect to leave here tomorrow morning. We will take the cars as far as Bridgeport. From there to Chattanooga it is about 40 mile, and within shooting distance of the Rebs on Lookout Mountain. I suppose you heard that out division had a fight one night about a week ago. I havn't heard as yet whether our regiment was in it or not but I did hear that our Brigader General Green was wounded and is now in Louisville. I expect to be back with the regiment in a couple of days so if you should write as soon as you get this, I should be here. Please write all of the news and send the weekly Standard. Direct to the division 12th Corps via Nashville. Oliver PS: please send a paper that has some election returns on it. I hear that New York State has gone union by about 35,000. If that is indeed so I suppose the Copperheads must squirm some. |
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