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The ride from N. to M. was a pleasant one although a little cool, as all the nights are here even in the warmest weather. The first part of the journey led through a somewhat hilly country, the road being cut through a number of blue limestone hills and passing over the bed of stone river a number of times all the passages being guarded by a "stockade" (a kind of log-house with loop holes for muskets & the more important ones have a small cannon. The country as we approach M. grows more level and for miles around extends a gently undulating plain, with here and there a tract of timber or a piece thickly covered with stone

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papers you have sent. Direct to "Co. I, 88th Ill. Murphreesboro, Tenn." Your cousin, Ed W. Curtis [vertical writing end]