Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
Edgefield, Tenn., Sun., April 10, 1864.—I have sent Lieut. Wemple’s detail to General Thomas for approval, but have not yet heard from it. In addition to picket duty we have been put on tram-guard duty on the railroad between here and Louisville. This takes the whole regiment. I have sent the right wing across the river on the picket line beyond the city, under command of Colonel Chapman, to do that duty. All the men in the left wing are on the railroad, and I do not think I have fifty men in camp today. Rather lonesome. Jerry sends his best love to Minerva. He gets homesick sometimes. Somebody cut through his tent and stole his watch a few nights since.
