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from nidfllf Tcbbeiiee.W avjckly,T*un.. March 2T5.I*)4.Koito* HAifl-W^iWr Air* in look-ing over the Semi-Weekly Hawk-Ey^of March Unli, I saw an article signed by a 1 lady giving lb# gentlemen a hit about ua- I bii* iN'*w I am not addicted to | using tli# weed myself. I always look*)| UfH.u it ill* a Pithy practice, but if the signer j of the ilicn'etDeailotied article were here •be would find plenty of her own mr I# l**flire about uning tobacco, a* nnmt of the j women here in TennoHHee, chew tobacco and snuff. I have seen a young mu* and hia wife come to «jtie of our sultler* and buy ouch a plug of tobacco, both chewing.\ ery many young women keep their hnuff )ottle using it by dipping a slick hi it and chew ing *d, |p»ing about w it!i a stick In their mouth. While on picket post, on the road leading out of town, the lt;ther day, a go**I looking youug widow of a MfcoMh Colonel’ cnme up to la- panned out, having u amutf-Stick In her mouth. It in considered quite a favor by the girls if the young men bring them a bottle of snuff, when they come to nee them.By the way, I may an well give vou a few Items about this part of Middle Tenn«*me.Our regiment,the first Missouri Engineers, came down hero from Nashville, to lav the track minI build bridges on what Is called the North-Western Kail road, from the Tennessee river. to Nashville. It is a rough, broken, hilly country, covered with timber, ami except the Creek valleys, the soil is u*i hard and gravelly to !*• cultivated.—For this reason the country is thinly settled. The p«*onle of this county t Humphry) are nearly all aeeasli. I hey did not vote for civil otlicers, Ibis mouth, as Home coun-ties did. I have not heard a man of them sneak of ladng w illing to come back Into the Union,- although Col. Dorr, of the 8th Iowa C avalry had given most of them pro-tection papers, which they gave him a few buck-shot in return, being way-laid by four bush-whackers, wounding him slightly. One of them, 1 understand he had beared for a while, with the 8th Iowa. Our Colonel { Fladd) is in command of this post, and this line of road they expect to have finished from the river to* this low n U*' next week. Our regiment is at work, being scattered along the road. The track is laid some :ir miles out from Nashville. Thiswill be the main route lor supplies to Nashville. The Tennessee river is navigable at all seasons of the year, to the point where this road comes to the river. One-third of the squad of veterans, (some 165) go home on furlough this week. Our regiment is made up from Missouri, Iowa and Illinois, ami almost, to a man, are for Lincoln for next President—he is the choice of the old soldiers. L. lt;\ O.1st Bat. Engineer Kog't.t#^The local of the State Register thus
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Fri, Apr 08, 1864
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