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Our march from Falmoth to Cynthiana was a tedious one the distance was 22 miles we had orders to go through that day with three regiments, in some places the hills were so steep that they put on twelve mules to pull the baggage wagons up we marched untill 10 O clock at night when we halted at the foot of a hill within two miles of town, the mules were so tired that no amount of beating would move them. The bulet holes in the houses of Cynthiana give evidence of a warmly contested fight between the union forces and that of Kirby Smith at the time he was marching on to Cincinnati, the latter came upon the town by three different roads and compelled them to surrender [begin vertical writing] You need not direct to any town in particular but simply Ky. it will come direct to the regiment [vertical writing end]