[from the diary of Francis G. Hale of the 34th Ohio Zouaves]

We left Mud Bridge
last night at about nine
o clock and started for
Barboursville we arived
here about 2 oclock wet
mudy and tired for it
was very mudy and
snowed pretty near all
the way I had to help
gard fore prisners
that we had they told
us lots of things we
crost over [?] Hille
where General or Colonll
Legler had a fight
with the rebels they had
a cannon they sayed
that one fellow ut it
on his sholdier an fired
it at the rebles then
we past through the
narrows where the
rebles fired at the
Federal troopes we are
quartered in a house
got a big fire place
where we can cook
with out going out
doors in the weather
but I do not know
how long we will
stay here but hope if
we leave here we will
go to a better all the
time till we get to
cincinnatti then quarter
in the Burnet house
or the Black Bare to day
is a very pleasant one
we are on the [?] river

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