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Source citation
Reprinted in The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Import Events of the Year 1861 ... (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1864), 460.
Type
Military record
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
John Osborne
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Pikesville, Kentucky
November 10, 1861
Soldiers !
I thank you for what you have done. In a campaign of twenty days you have driven the rebels from Eastern Kentucky, and given repose to that portion of the State. You have made continual forced marches over wretched roads, deep in mud. Badly clad, you have bivouacked on the wet ground, in the November rain, without a murmur. With scarcely half rations, you have pressed forward with unfailing perseverance. The only place that the enemy made a stand, though ambushed and very strong, you drove him from, in the most brilliant style, for your constancy and courage I thank you, and with the qualities which you have shown that you possess, I expect great things from you in future.
William Nelson,
Brigadier-General
