Federals at Woodsonville, a village of three or four houses opposite Munfordville, Ky. It was General Bragg’s intention to capture this fort before General Buell could reach there. A short time previous to this, General Chalmers, of Mississippi, had stormed this fort and lost twelve hundred men. Our object was to get in the rear of these fortifications. We left Glasgow at sunrise with one day’s rations, and marched rapidly in an easterly direction. We had some twelve thousand men and twenty-seven pieces of artillery. In marching along the road shaded by a lot of black-jack trees, we saw a countryman with a barrel of water on a sled drawn by a horse. We did not ask for a drink, but in a few moments the barrel was empty. The poor fellow said: “I have not a drop of water at home, and my wife and children are suffering.” We felt sorry for him, but such is war. We crossed Green River before midnight, and about 3 A.M. we were in Munfordville, and formed a line of battle in the suburbs of the town. Company B was in the cemetery, and I slept until sunup with a grave for a pillow. Our artillery had been placed in position not far from the Louisville and Nashville bridge, and considerably higher than the Federal fort in Woodsonville. They saw that we were in a position to shell them out, and at sunrise up went the white flag, and we marched four thousand prisoners out and paroled them. The advance of General Buell’s army had reached Bowling Green; and in a few days many of his men reached our line without guns and surrendered, saying that they were tired of the war. After the capture we expected General Bragg to do one of two things: either move on General Buell at Cave City, or go to Louisville. The authorities in Louisville expected the latter, and every able-bodied man in Louisville was called on to throw up fortifications; but General Bragg did neither of the two things expected, but he marched us eight miles toward Louisville and went into camp at Bacon Creek. Next day he marched us back to Munfordville, and then again to Bacon Creek; and one night we camped at the side of the old stage road near Bacon Creek, and it poured rain all night. The little sleep I got was on three rails. From Bacon Creek the army moved through Elizabethtown, Hodgenville, New Haven, and went into camp at Bardstown, Ky., twenty-seven miles from Louisville. While here Governor Hawes was inaugurated Governor of the State. General Bragg issued a proclamation calling on the Kentuckians to flock to his standard, and we fired a few volleys from the artillery, which broke all the glass in the windows of the courthouse. While we were in camp at Bardstown, General Buell’s army marched to Louisville; and while we were playing soldier and living high in the blue grass country and losing men, General Buell was recruiting his army, and was soon ready for an advance; and we moved to Springfield, Perryville, Danville, and