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Sep 01, 2021 LibrarianDiva May 06, 2021 Middlebury College Special Collections	p. Head Qrs 75th Ill Vol Nashville Tenn Dec 9th 1864 Dearest Lydia I have neglected my correspondence with you or rather I have been so busy that I have realy had no time to write + I have to steal from the hours of sleep to write this but I feel that I must do it + can perhaps write nothing better than from my memorandum from the time I left Pulaski The 23d of November we had orders to march at noon we had hoped to remain there for the winter but it soon became evident that Hood was making by us for some more northerly front which made it necessary to concentrate our lines + as I have said the 23d we received orders to march This Brigade wsa detached for rear guard + to the 73th was assigned the special duty of destroying all stoves that could not be removed quite an amount of stoves had accumulated + the cars were running all day + then were unable to remove it all after the trains had all left we began the work of destruction	p. Head Qrs 75th Ill Vol Nashville Tenn Dec 9th 1864 Dearest Lydia I have neglected my correspondence with you or rather I have been so busy that I have realy had no time to write + I have to steal from the hours of sleep to write this but I feel that I must do it + can perhaps write nothing better than from my memorandum from the time I left Pulaski The 23d of November we had orders to march at noon we had hoped to remain there for the winter but it soon became evident that Hood was making by us for some more northerly front which made it necessary to concentrate our lines + as I have said the 23d we received orders to march This Brigade wsa detached for rear guard + to the 73th was assigned the special duty of destroying all stoves that could not be removed quite an amount of stoves had accumulated + the cars were running all day + then were unable to remove it all after the trains had all left we began the work of destruction

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