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our line of march on the twenty first of July but we dident start until the 22nd. I wrote to Caroline a few days before we started and I told her that we wer under marching orders but at that time we didnot know where we were going to though we thought we were going to Nashville, Tennessee but that time guess work dident hit. The first days march without any thing of importance transpiring or without much interest to us as we dident get but little outside of our scouting boundary. At night we turned of the road we were pursueing on a road leading to Inca and camped. That night it rained upon us very hard for about eight hours so that every stitch of clothing or bedding we possessed was thouroughly soaked with water. The next day we passed into the state