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trees and all in blossom that I did not see among other fruit trees. We passed through what was once the village of Lavergne, but there is now but two or three houses now left standing and the bare chimnies of a number of others left standing. It was burned by the rebs and our troops, the one burning what the other left. It was here that the enemy burned a wagon train of ours, killing 14 or 15 negroes whom they took with it; the [irons?] and ashes still mark the spot where the wagons stood. Passing on, we pass near the most severely contested part of