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division has become so reduced that we were obliged to come back to this place which is about 15 miles from the front to recruit our horses. For 6 days our horses did not taste corn, and all they had to eat was wheat and rye which we pulled up by the roots out of the fields. For 3 days our battery horses lived on a wheat field which was planted by an old lady and her daughters. The husband and father being in the rebel army. On such living as this our horses have become very weak. but we are now getting plenty of corn and expect to be fit for service in a couple of weeks. Cartersville is a small [villinzer?] near the crossing of the Etowah river by the Chattanooga and Atlanta R.R. the rebels left here about a week ago. During our marching we have frequently met Chicago Batteries A, B and G [illeg] and they are all engaged in the present battle at Dallas. We left there a week ago tomorrow up to that time the Kennedy boys were well and no casualties had happened to either Batteries A or B. The rebels charge our lines almost every night and meet invariably with severe lofses. Our division of Calvary has been nearer Atlanta that any other of the Yankee troops a week ago yesterday we were within 28 miles of that place and being the first yanks that the inhabitants ever saw. I was sorry to hear of