To Mary Milroy From RH Milroy May 29 1864

              Nashville Tennessee 
 
                                                                   May 29th 1864 
 
 
 
My Dear Mary, 
 
 
 
           I got back to this place 
 on Wednesday last, having been down to 
 the front nearly to the center of the State 
 of Georgia—to report to Genls. Thomas and 
 Sherman. I left this place on last 
 Friday a week (the 20th) for the front 
 taking Mr. James with me.  Most of 
 the country through which I passed 
 was splended, that is the land is rich, 
 rolling-well watered –well timbered 
.—but generly rather poorly improved. 
Nature has lavished her choicest 
 gifts upon this State in everything that 
 conduces to the wealth and greatness of 
a country.  The climate is equal to that  
of  Italy, and is beautiful scenery, health 
 salubrity, soil, timber minerals, stone 
 marble, water, etc and is not surpassed 
 by any country on Earth.  But in this  
favored and beautiful portion of Gods Crea 
tion “Man alone is vile”  He has most 
 Cruely apprised his fellow man.  The