To rotate the image, hold down SHIFT and ALT on your keyboard, and then click and drag on the page.
some say we are going over the Mountains
others to Knoxville, and more to
Virginia; but it's all the same to us
though I had rather be in Va. on some
accounts. but should rather be in Tenn.
if we could stop at this Poste. However
its all one in the end.
We had quite a fire in the town night
before last, which broke out in the
Rail Road House near the Depot
burning it to the ground not leaving
lumber enough to build a shebang
They have no fire engines there and
I dont suppose one half the natives
ever saw one consequently water had
to be passed by hand but there was
pleanty of hands to do it as there are
three regiments quartered here. Our mess
got a number of cans of preserved Peaches
which were not bad to take by any means
In fact about every man in the regiment
go one or more. And now you can't
move without stumbling over a Peach Can