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of rails and logs along the line.
When driven from one, another force has another barricade ready some half or three-quarters of a mile on. In this way they manage to check and hinder our march.
We have driven them across the Etowah, and are now resting and collecting supplies for further progress.
You will possibly see accounts of our operations in the newspapers.
We have had to charge or turn well-constructed breastworks, and at times the fighting has been severe.
General Willich and Colonel (now General) Harker in our corps were wounded.
We had quite a battle at Dalton, at Resaca, then at Adairsville, and lastly here, near Cassville.
A kind Providence has protected me and my staff in the midst of constant dangers.
We have been fired upon by sharpshooters, small arms and artillery.
Two or three have had their horses shot, and I had one bullet through my coat, but none of us have received any harm.
We are preparing for a march, and if you don't get a letter you must not think it strange, for communication may be much interrupted.
I long to get this work done that I may return to you all, if God is willing.
I do feel as though my work was not yet done, but we ought always be ready ....
The country this side of Resaca is very beautiful.
Large, luxuriant farms, magnificent trees.
It is no wonder our enemies are not starving in such a country as this.
This is a pleasing change of scenery from the mountains near Chattanooga, and really of great practical benefit to the horses and mules; plenty of grass to eat. The people have nearly all gone away.
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God bless and keep you ...
How much we owed to our transportation That well-organized railway performed wonders. Before our three days rest at Cassville was over, the railway that our enemy had destroyed had been constructed as far as Sherman's headquarters at
