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also to Wm & Thomas by Mr Temple of Nashville.

Mo 17 March Jesse Harrass got home from Nashville & brought letter from William dated 23 Feby

1862 March 17 Monday Jesse Harrass brought a letter from Thomas to Fanna I did not git to see it dated 23d Feby
The pickets of the enemy & our own pickets shot at each other across Duck River at Columbia for about two hours Some 100 shots, the bridge being burned down & the river verry high they could not git near enough to do much harm to each other. All our Cavalry left this evening for Decator Col Biffle & Col Scotts Cavalry, Scotts is from Louisiana.

17 March) The Mair & Aldermen Sent a Flag of Truse to the enemy (by Wm B Wilson & Jas. Auton) ackowledging the surrender of the Town to the enemy, it was all the Citizens could do to keep the Yankeys from shelling the Town in consequence of shooting at them.

March 20 Our Cavalry burning the Cotton in the Southern portion of Maury County all they can find, & the enemy crossing Duck river into Town in Canoes

March 25 Brooks got home from Columbus Ohio seen Thomas about the 20th Inst he was well. William had gone to Fort Warren in Massachusetts with all the field officers taken at Donalson. What awful feelings the two brothers had at parting from each other they had stayed to Gather all the time from the time