Part 2

...The 9th day (27th) we marched across distance of 8 miles camped on the west end of the Plank Road across Nig*er Walk Swamp. The tenth day (28th) we marched across the swamp Distance of 14 miles and marched on eleven miles further making 25 miles we marched this day. We camped on a beautiful Papaw Ridge. I need not add we slept well that night although it frosted and was very cold for the season. The eleventh day (29th) we reached Point Pleasant on the Mississippi River (a distance of 12 miles) where we remained until the 30th of Sept. 1861 when we embarked on the Steamer Alonzo Child for Columbus Kentucky, arrived later same day. We remained here until the 15th (October) when we took carrs for Bowling Green KY. We stopped at Danville Tenn. on the 17th being two days arriving to this place. Here we remained until the 20th when we again started for Bowling Green. After two days very uncomfortable traveling we arrived at our destination (being Bowling Green) where we remained until the 29th when we started out in great glea to meet the Yankees. Marched 10 miles toward Woodburg Ky. but the enemy had skedaddled. Here we stopped until the first day of November when we returned to Bowling Green. We remained here until the 9th of November started again to hunt Yankees but this time a different direction (being towards Thompkinsville Ky.) The first day (the 9th) we marched 12 miles and camped. the 2nd (10th) we marched 12 miles reached Scottville. The 3rd day (11th) we marched 18 miles to Jimtown where we camped for the night. The 4th day (12th) we marched 20 miles reaching Thompkinsville but the men we sought had fled. The next day (13th) we again set out and marched 8 miles toward Columbia and stopped unil next morning when we started back to Bowling Green. We was five days getting back making ten days we was marching on this trip. We camped at the old camps where we remained until the 6th of Dec. when we moved four miles from town and built Winter Quarters. Here we remained until the 13th of Feby (1862) when we started for Nashville Tenn. The first day (13th) we marched 15 miles and there fell a very considerable snow this night. The next morning (14th) we started marched all day through the snow a distance of 20 miles. Lay down in open field on snow at night. The next morning (15th) we marched 10 miles and stopped until the next morning (16th) when we started. Marched all day. Found ourselves in Nashville at nine o' clock PM, distance of 35 miles from where we stayed overnight. We slept in the Market House until morning when we moved one mile from town on the Murfreesboro Turnpike where we camped until the 18th of Feby when again started, marched 10 miles and camped until the 20th when we started and marched 20 miles reaching Murfeesboro late in the evening.