She dragged me back from the window and fled across the

Bowling Green with a force much reduced by the losses sustained in

the battle of Perryville and by sickness. I had started from

Louisville on October 1 with twelve regiments of infantry--four old

and eight new ones--and two batteries, but many poor fellows,

overcome by fatigue, and diseases induced by the heat, dust, and

drought of the season, had to be left at roadside hospitals. This

was particularly the case with the new regiments, the men of which,

much depressed by homesickness, and not yet inured to campaigning,