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Camp [Wright?] Situated five miles South of Louisville - Ky. Friday Sept 12th.

Dear Father and Mother

   The Board of Trade Battery is now encamped as you will see by this heading on the sacred soil of [illegible] Kentucky, 3 miles south of Louisville.  Time will not permit me to give you a full account of our journey, to day being marching day.   But you may expect another letter from me in a day or two giving the particulars of our pleasant journey.  Suffice it to say that [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Jeffersonville (Indiana) on the banks of the Ohio, on Wednesday at 12 o'clock, and after feeding our horses we unloaded our guns, harnessed the horses, and went down to the