1864
Paint   rock Bridg
                   the 2              the 2
            June     alabamy
                        Dear  friends
we now hav arrived in rebledom
we are fare   from home
we are as well as [comon?]
and I hope these few lines
may find you well we
run  great  resks  on the
rail road  92 miles below nashville
tennese  Struck the mountains
we went up it appeared like
we would nver get to the  top
we A bout 2 miles high
we went through the tunnel
at one mile then we Sean
 the Dainger we went down
So fast that you Could not
hardly see anything they
done their best to hold back
the fall the road had 160 ft
to the mile they run the
engin Backwards halfo of th
                                        time

 we run A Bout 2 miles a minute
or near a bout 4 minutes
we run 6 miles in that time
weare 150 miles  below nashville
ten our regiment is to guard
the rail road  we are strung a bout
fifty miles Co  at a place
       their is 2 Campanye here
at  this  place [C  D?]  Co h
we are be twween to big
mountains  we are Camped on
the Side of the mountain the
rockes lay  thick great
cliffs cedar trees all through
the mountains I bought [?]
of Coffee  gave 25 cts for it
  to have    Something to
drink  a  little  hard tack
and and watter I was hard
[living?]   the Suply train
  Came up 3 hours a go we
was very hungry we got Something
to eat