Robert writes to his sister Helen Rogers from Lexington, detailing that he has not been well but is slowly improving. Robert notes the events of several forced marches in which they encountered guerrilla fighters and marched within 25 miles of the Cumberland Mountains. Robert writes that about 40 men from the Regiment have been sent 10 miles away to guard around 1,360 beef cattle but left their tents and blankets behind. Robert proceeds to detail their numerous camping grounds along the Kentucky River, detailing its steep cliffs in some places that resulted in the death of a four mule team that ran over the edge. Roberts continues by noting that they have had plenty of beans, beef, rice, baker's bread, blackberries, tea, and coffee, but their smallest rations are sugar and molasses. Robert concludes by writing that two men in the Company were wounded at Buffington, one mortally in the head and the other in the leg, that the man who shot Andrew Whalen was killed on the road, and another died while on Picket Duty.
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