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morning, on Saturday we made 14 miles beside waiting four hours for a provision train that was to go with us, at night we received orders for three of our regiments to leave the turnpike and cross the country to Falmath, while the forth went so as an escort for the train to Lexington. The cause of this was the scarcity of water, as there has been no rain here of any amount for four months. Sunday we traveled 18 miles through a very broken country. It is inhabited by the poor trash who do not own niggars the able bodied men have all gone to the war, they are nearly equily divided between sesech & Union, our third camp was named desolate hollow