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In Camp at Danville Kentucky

Oct 23rd 1862

Dear Lydia

There is now a chance
to send a letter right through to
Franklin Grove where it will be
mailed to you. I have now written
seven or eight letters to you but
presume they will not all reach
but this I am pretty sure of

We have been on twenty five
miles from this where we laid over
three days. We then came back
and our troops had got five miles
beyond this towards Lebanon when
our Brigade was ordered to about face
and they camped here that night, 21st.

The next morning two Regiments
of our Brigade with one Battery was
ordered back to Lancaster, ten miles
with five days rations. The other two
regiments composing this Brigade were
ordered to remain here until the
return of the expedition, which will
be three days longer. There is something
in the wind which will develop itself.