We discussed all these matters fully, in the most friendly spirit, and I thought I had aroused Mr.Cameron to a realization of the great war that was before us, and was in fact upon us.

I heard him tell General Thomas to make a note of our conversation, that he might attend to my requests on reaching Washington.

We all spent the evening together agreeably in conversation, many Union citizens calling to pay their respects, and the next morning early we took the train for Frankfort; Mr.Cameron and party going on to Cincinnati and Washington, and I to Camp Dick Robinson to see General Thomas and the troops there.
I found General Thomas in a tavern, with most of his regiments camped about him.

He had sent a small force some miles in advance toward Cumberland Gap, under Brigadier-General Schoepf.

Remaining there a couple of days, I returned to Louisville; on the 22d of October, General Negley's brigade arrived in boats from Pittsburg, was sent out to Camp Nolin; and the Thirty-seventh Indiana., Colonel Hazzard, and Second Minnesota, Colonel Van Cleve, also reached Louisville by rail, and were posted at Elizabethtown and Lebanon Junction.