HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGIMENT
O. V. U. S. A.,
ENCAMPED NEAR PADUCAH,
KY., March 7, 1862.
MY DEAR WIFE:
We are under marching orders, and should have left for
Savannah, up the Tennessee River, yesterday. If you look on the map, you will discover
the point near the straight line between Tennessee and Alabama. The transport
steamers did not arrive, as we expected, yesterday, and we shall embark to-day.
My troops are well armed and well equipped and in good spirits. My own health
is excellent.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 188-9
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