Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty, December 18, 1861

In camp at Bacon creek, eight miles north of Green river. Have been two days on the way from Elizabethtown; the road was bad. There were nine regiments in the column, which extended as far almost as the eye could reach.

At Louisville I was compelled to bear heavily on officers and men. On the march hither I have dealt very thoroughly with some of the most disorderly, and in consequence have become unpopular with the regiment.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 87