I once more seat myself to drop you a few lines to inform you that me & Cummings are well hopeing when these few lines comes to hand they will find you & all the ballance well. We came to this plase the day before yestarday we was six days on the march from Gordensville to this place & we had a right funny time of it we had several rivers to wade too of them was just about as much as we could cross for they was about waist deep and as swift as you please. The day we got hear it rained the heardest I nearly ever saw it to continue so long. We all got as wet as water could make us. We come through several little towns, the first was Orangeville [...]una Newtown Currens town & one or two more little towns I cant think [...] you will look on the map [...] tell pretty much the way [...] country but it cant begin to come up with the old settlements of Kentucky. I was up in Winchester today it is a very unpleasant plase to be at now for so many wounded soldiers their, part yankees & part rebbles. I have been inquireing trying to hear something from Rieves but I cant hear anything of him. William A. Gilmer said he saw a wounded man from the 37th Regt that said he dident think that Rieves nor James A. Gilmer was hurt in the fight. They have had a bloody time of it & it is said hear that Lee has crossed back on this side. I hate to say it it is in my opinion that our men got whipped pretty bad but hope it is not the case. Our rashions have been sorter[?] scanty since we came hear the yankees have been hear so long they have made provisions dear hear. The people hear are Unionist [...] to my opinion for they sold eggs [to] the yankees at 25 cts a dozen & [...] to give $1.00. This is the grea[...] country for buries that [...] saw & it is a very g[...] country but it isent as fine a country as I expected to see. Wheat crops are very good hear the people are cuting their hearvest hear now but all wheat hear is dead ripe. Their has been a great deal of wet weather for the last month people cannot save their grain on that account. I would like to know how our folks are getting along with their grain. Martha I heardly ever get a letter from home & you say you write every week you sertainly dont direct them right you must not direct them to any post office for we dont stay [...] at one plase to get a [...] will leave hear [...] your letter