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[1854]

Adjutant's Office: 88th Ill. Infty., Loudon, Tenn. April 11 [subscript begin] 16 [subscript end], Night. For a little while good bye - good night. We march to-morrow morning; getting back into the Department of the Cumberland, from which we have so long been detached. I am glad of this, for it will lighten my labors, seeing that hitherto, by reason of belonging to one Department and being stationed in another, I have had to tender in our Regimental returns and reports to both. We shall probably go into camp at Charlestown, where I hope to find a letter from yourself and Sister. I am not at all strong or well; but as, this time, I shall ride instead of walk, I must get along finely. I want you to be pleased in a matter which especially interests this Regiment. Attached to the Army is a certain corps of Medical Inspectors who are not confined to any particular Department, but whose duties pertain to the whole Army, and who render their reports direct to the Surgeon-General. Two of these gentlemen