"We were camped or stayed at Camp Boyle, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky three months and fifteen days. We received marching orders Wednesday evening February 12, 1862 to leave the next morning and marched southward. We marched according to orders and camped at CREELEY's eight miles from town on the first night on the road to Edmonton. We reached Edmonton Saturday evening the fifteenth. We rested on Sunday morning. On the seventeenth we started to Glasgow, Barren County, marked through Randolph and camped five miles from Glasgow at old NEIL's. We reached town Tuesday morning the eighteenth and camped one mile from town on the pike leading to Scottsville. "We left Glasgow the twenty-third and marched two miles beyond BELL's Tavern we camped. There I stood guard the second time in my life and first in my own place. My post was in the turnpike. The night was cold and awfully windy. We camped at Dripping Springs in Edmonson County, fifteen miles from Bowling Green, on the twenty-fourth. Tuesday the twenty-fifth between the turnpike and a turnpike one and a half miles from Bowling Green, the county seat of Warren County, we stayed until Sunday morning the second of March. We received marching orders to cross Barren River and crossed about noon on a bridge made by fastening three steam boats and an old ferry boat together and laying planks across. It rained very hard all day but we had to stand and take it. We stacked our arms on the side of the river bank until our wagons crossed, which was late in the evening. We were not allowed to leave our guns far and there were no houses convenient to shelter in as we were outside of town. As soon as our wagons were across we marched in though town and camped for the night four miles beyond in mud and water nearly shoe-mouth deep. We had nothing to sleep on except some pieces of rails, while our eyes were filled with smoke. This place I will always recollect from the roughness of our fare there. The place is about four miles from Bowing Green on the left side of the turnpike leading to Franklin, above a deep little hollow in which a creek rises, runs about a hundred yards and enters into a cave where an old mill once stood. "Monday we marched through Woodburn and camped a mile from Franklin, the county seat of Simpson County. We marched through town Tuesday morning and crossed the Tennessee line at Mitchville, sSmner County about twelve o'clock. We camped in Nashville area about thirty-four miles of Nashville. We marched through Franklin, the county seat of Williamson County, March the nineteenth and camped about seven or eight miles beyond, about middle-way between Franklin and Spring Hill where we stayed two days. Friday morning the twenty-first we marched through Spring Hill, Maury County, and camped about seven or eight miles beyond, midway between Spring Hill and Columbia, the county seat of Maury County where I ate a good bait of chicken and dumplins. We stayed there nine days. "There Lieutenant COYLE was promoted to Captain over our company (G). George N FAULKNER of Company A was appointed as our First Lieutenant and a thing by the name of CRESS our Second Lieutenant. (so written). He had belonged to the Fourth Kentucky Regiment. Our officers names were then as follows: Captain AUSTIN, First Lieutenant George N FAULKNER, Second Lieutenant CRESS, First Sergeant James M SIMMONS, Second, D N JENKINS, Third G M BRONSON, Fourth WIlliam T DEVASHER, First Corporal N H SIMMONS, Second M S BISHOP, Third G W BRITT, Fourth D H SIMMONS, Fifth James U NEWTON, Sixth GEORGE W McDUFFY and D S SIMMONS. "We remained there nine days between the Spring Hill and Columbia. Sunday evening March 30 we received marching orders. We crossed Duck River opposite Columbia about sundown. We had to strip off all of our clothes except our shirts and jackets and wade across, which was about seventy-five yards wide and straddle deep." To be continued next week. For all the Bowling Green listers - is the cave referred to by Simmons where the mill used to be ... was this Cave Mill in Bowling Green? Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html