Saturday, March 8, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith

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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