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There were at this time three main armies that of the Potomac, as the army of Virginia was called, of which McClellan held the command; that of Kentucky, under General Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now held the command.
At noon, Kinney's battery fired a salute, in honor of the occasion. The next day, went about four miles beyond Bardstown and again camped in the woods. A large number of troops were camped near us. On Monday morning, the 24th, we started for Louisville. Nearly all of Thomas' Division were with us, making quite a large army.
I had known the Captain in Louisville, for he had been stationed at Fort Finney, the army post across the Ohio from that town, and he had come to Pittsburg with a sergeant to fetch down the river some dozen recruits. This was a most fortunate circumstance for me, and in more ways than one.
One need consider only the practical and physical effects of interest and self-forgetfulness, serenity and self-resource. Sometimes her increasing trade took her away for two or three days, as far as Louisville or Cincinnati. The thought of Guy followed her, a sweet pain.
The Atlanta campaign would simply have been impossible without the use of the railroads from Louisville to Nashville one hundred and eighty-five miles from Nashville to Chattanooga one hundred and fifty-one miles and from Chattanooga to Atlanta one hundred and thirty-seven miles.
September 25th, resumed our march, and at noon arrived at West Point, situated on the Ohio, at the mouth of Salt River, and distant from Louisville twenty-two miles. For the first time in a year we once more beheld a free State. After remaining a few hours, once more made a move. Crossed Salt River, and were now on the direct road to Louisville. Two miles from West Point we encamped.
On the 6th of June, 1838, the white frost lay on the west side of Pittsburg roofs as we steamed away from her wharf, bound for Louisville, where my husband proposed going into a business already established by his brother Samuel.
Consequently, the movement of this army through Tennessee and Kentucky toward the Ohio River its objective points being Louisville and Cincinnati was now well defined, and had already rendered abortive General Buell's designs on Chattanooga and East Tennessee.
On August 2, Audubon and his wife sailed for America, and landed in New York on September 4. They at once went to Louisville where the wife remained with her sons, while the husband went to Florida where the winter of 1831-2 was spent, prosecuting his studies of our birds.
The object of these was to keep the enemy amused near home and prevent the raids his cavalry had been making on the railway line by which Rosecrans kept up his communication with Louisville.
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