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hope they may be filled above. I hope Seth may be among the returned ones by the way of the Mississippi. One brigade (4 regis.?) started from Cowan on the 30th of last month for Stevenson, Ala., (25 miles from C., on the railroad to Chattanooga) leaving the convalescents to come up on the [illegible] in a day or two after. Accordingly on the first date of this month, at about 3.p.m, we started on a freight train for S. After leaving C. a couple of miles behind, we had to ascend a grade of 200 feet in a mile; the engine got "set" twice in making the ascent and all the ablest had to get off and help start the train. On reaching the top of this ascent we passed through tunnel, cut in solid rock, about a mile long, which was three or four years building. After passing through this the road for some miles wound along the sides of the rocky hills,