Nashville. Tenn. Nov. the. 9th /62
Dear Brother.
	       I take my pen
in hand to write you a
few lines. to let you know
that we are both well. we
have wrote two letters to you.
Since we received your last.
the last that we wrote was at
Bowling Green. we are encamped
near the River. opposite  to Nashville
we have been here two days. the 
weather is very fine here at 
present. provisions are very scarce
here. corn meal being two dollars
per bushel. & other things in
proportion. we have received no pay
yet & the men talk very strongly
of going no. farther. without it I
have no more to write. Direct as usual.
From your Brother Allen Campbell

     Nashville Tenn Nov 9th /62
          Dear Brother
		          I seat myself to
write to you to let you know where we
are and what we are doing. well we have
been on the march the most of the
time Since we left Stevenson only resting
occasionally a day or two in a place. we have
been all through Ky and are this far on our
way back to "Alabama again." I tell you we
have had a tedious time of it and have
been marched almost to death. and I think
we will start again in a day or two and
then the Lord only knows where we will
stop. But we have a new man at the
head of this department now and we hope
for better results from our next "Campaign"
our Regt. is in good health at present
and has been filled up by new recruits
to near its original Size and the recruiting
Officers are still out our Captain being one
of them. You people at home should 
take and have them all arrested until the


     men in the Regt could institute
     proceedings against them for they are
wilfully deceiving the men whom they enlist
the new men tell us that they were
promised $17.. per month. and were told that
the Regt.. had been paid and were regularly
receiving their pay at that rate, the Regt.. yet
has never been paid. Some of the men have
taken their pay at $13.. per month that was
last Spring. and since then pay has not been
offered. there is considerble excitement among
the men at present and there is talk of going
no farther without pay. I do not know how
the matter will end but I hope that we will
send it home as soon as we get a chance
we saw Eli Jennings a short time ago. he
was well as common. the weather is quite
pleasant but very dry. there has been no rain
here of any account in several months. the nights
are very cold and frosty and we have a job to
keep warm. write Soon. Direct. Co. F. [1st. M.E.&M?]
Louisville K.y. Ever Yours  Alexan Campbell