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Give my love to all, tell any and all to write, I write to you so that all hear from me as if I wrote them. Yours affectionately, E. W. Curtis

Nashville, Tenn.

Nov. 16th 1862.

Dear Aunt:

My last, I think, was dated from Bowling Green, to-day I salute you from the banks of the Cumberland river, and although no in Nashville still I am within sight of its capitol, but on the opposite side of the river, in the edge of the town of Edgefield, which is quite a village, and is at present connected with N. by the railroad and a pontoon bridge; a splendid suspension bridge having been destroyed by the rebels last fall.

We reached here a week ago last Friday night, having been four days on the route, a distance of about 75 miles marching 23 in one day the longest get in any one day. We crossed the State