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Whiteside Station Tenn Nov 16th 1863 Dear Sir, as I have not much to do this evning & no body to help me I thought I would write you a few [illegible] know that I am still in the land of the living [illegible] enjoying myself as well as could be expected in this heathenish land & I hope when these few lines reaches you they will find you all well I wrote you a letter about a month ago but have received no Answer yet & I thought perhaps you had not got my letter & I will write again--I dont hardly know what to tell you first, but I will tell you of our wandering around from place to place. our Division left Chattanooga the 24th of last Crossed the River & come back as far as [Shell?] Mound Station on the Tenn River,--we Camped there one night & Day recrossed the [illegible] & Come up the other Side 12 miles closer to Chattanooga to a place Called whiteside Station where we are Still camped, it rained nearly all the time while we was marching & Oh, the mud it was nothing but [mud?], the ground seemed as though there was no bottom -- we had to pull the Artillery up the Mountain & through the mud holes