CAMP ON WOLF RIVER,
NEAR MEMPHIS, Dec. 14, 1862.
The papers, I suppose, have told you what we have been
about. My regiment was the first to cross the Tallahatchie. We have marching
orders for the 18th, four days to rest and get ready, and then for Vicksburg or
Jackson, or what God pleases. We shall have an active winter campaign. My
health has been good until within a day or two. I have recurrence of the
infernal dysentery. I suppose the dampness in some way strikes upon my bowels,
and I could get no brandy. Whiskey, and very bad whiskey at that, is all we can
procure in the army, and it is my abomination.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 249
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