I see the tents of at least a regiment on the other bank.

No doubt they are stationed there to guard the road and railway bridge.

This part of the country is pretty equally divided in opinion, though more of the people are for the South than for the North; but I know there are guerrilla parties on both sides moving about, and if a Confederate band was to pounce down on these bridges and destroy them it would cut the communication with their army in front, and put them in a very ugly position if they were defeated.

No doubt that's why they have stationed that regiment there.

Anyhow, it makes it awkward for us.