Camp near Triune, Franklin Co Tenn
Decr 20th /62

Jas. M & T.A. Loves

Dear parents:
[movement of his Regt through middle Tennesse in relation to the enemy and Bragg's army, a "long and apparently useless trip"; capture of some of the boys near Louisville Ky; action in and around Bardstown ("in about 18 miles of Louisville");attempt of Feds to surround and capture them after leaving Bardstown thwarted by ambush; action at Perryville and Hartsville; pickets near Nashville and Yankee destruction of flour mill at Franklin; talk of end of war or armistice]