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November, 1861.
November, 30
The Third is encamped five miles south of Louisville, on the Seveth-street plank road.
As we marched through the city my attention was directed to a sign bearing the inscription, in large black letters, negroes bought and sold.
We have known, to be sure, that negroes were bought and sold, like cattle and tobacco, but it, nevertheless, awakened new, and not by any means agreeable, sensations to see the humiliating fact announced on the broad side of a commercial house.
These signs must come down.
The climate of Kentucky is variable, freezing nights and thawing in the day. The soil in this locality is rich, and, where trodden, extremely muddy.
We shall miss the clear water of the mountain streams.
A large number of troops are concentrating here.
November, 1862.
November, 9
In camp at Sinking Spring, Kentucky.
Thomas commands the Fourteenth Army Corps, consisting of Rousseau's, Palmer's, Dumont's, Negley's, and Fry's divisions; say 40,000 men. McCook has Sill's, Jeff C. Davis', and Granger's; say 24,000.
Crittenden has three divisions, say 24,000.
A large army, which ought to sweep to Mobile without difficulty.
Sinking Spring, as it is called by some, Mill Spring by others, and by still others Lost river, is quite a large stream.
It rises from the ground, runs forty rods or more, enters a cave, and is lost.
The wreck of an old mill stands on its banks.
Bowling Green is three miles southward.
When we get a little further south, we shall find at this season of the year persimmons and opossums in abundance.
Jack says: Possum am better dan chicken.
In de fall we hunt de possum ebbery night ‘cept Sunday.
He am mitey good an‘ fat, sah; sometimes he too fat.
We move at ten o'clock to-morrow.
November, 11