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Re: Bluett's Bridge location confirmed

I wonder why Carlisle described it as being a mile northeast.

"About eight o’clock the wagons began to move them off to the hospitals, which were then crowded to overflowing. About three o’clock the last of the poor fellows were carried off, when the wagons were turned over to our regiment to haul our baggage about a mile northeast of Columbus to our camping place, where we pitched tents near Bluett’s Bridge across Luxbelile creek [read Luxapalila]. Ours was called Camp Bluett."

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