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<p>passing through deep cuts, and sometimes so at 100 feet above the ravines below; finally passing into a level country, and reaching Stevenson at 7 p.m. We found that one reg. had started that morning for this place, and we had to wait at S two days for a small bridge to be completed before following them, a distance of ten miles, S. is a dilapidated looking place at the junction of the Charleston and Memphis RR with this one. 
Bridgeport, so often mentioned in the papers, was an insignificant place of a store or tow, a few houses, a steam saw and grist mill  etc., now all burnt, situated on the bank of the Tennessee river, at the crossing of the rail road, and it is very hilly except on the river bank. The brigade which preceded us here and ours are mostly camped within the rebel fortifications on
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