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No 3

  How long we will remain in our present camp it is difficult to say but I expect we will leave for Nashville very soon.  It is said that we have been waiting for the railroad to be completed between here and Nashville so that when we go there we will have plenty to eat and the papers say it will be finished aboutTuesday.  It will take us about 3 days to march there being I believe about 75 miles from here, but the roads are good and we will accomplish it easily.  It would amuse you greatly Sarah if you could only see me with my little Sugar bag of my own manufacture containing the day's ration of sugar, and my loaf of soft bread which thank goodness we get every day as long we remain in Bowling Green.    It looks slightly different from home where we could go to the battery and help ourselves never dreaming of such words as "our rations".  You asked me in one of your previous  letters how I liked the 2 books which Mr Stewart gave me .   
  One of them is missing lately, but the Orpheous C. Kerr papers I saw yesterday it is of course is the most interesting to the boys and they see that it is not left behind.   I have not carried them any since we left Louisville but they keep up with the battery like the 2 battery dogs, riding mostly in our baggage wagons.   I have read them almost through, and I may say that nearly all have read the Orpheous C. Kerr papers.