1862 December 6 near Nashville, Tenn.

[from the diary of Captain William F. Hunter, Co. B., 97th Ohio]


  Dec. 6th, ’62.
Clear & quite cold
this morning.
Up & eat breakfast
before daylight.
Ground covered with
snow.

   Marched at 8 A.M.,
8 or 10 miles from
camp, in direction of
Franklin; got into
a skirmish, - near-
ly surrounded, & com-
pelled to return
without filling
all our wagons, -
one man of Co. I
killed, & one of Co.
C. wounded slight-
ly. Very hard trav-
elling on account
of the snow melt-
ing.

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

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