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Using this for a minute industriously , he threw it into the fire and asked : `` Well ? '' `` Well , '' answered Fortner . `` I reckon hit 's ez sartin ez anything kin well be thet Wheeler 's and Morgan 's cavalry hez been sent off inter Kentucky , and ez thet 's what Ole rosy 's been waitin ' fur , now 's the time fur him ter put in his best licks . Ye 'd better start afore midnight fur Nashville . Ye 'll hev this news , an ' alos thet thar 's been no change in the location o ' the Rebels , ` cept thet Polk 's an ' Kirby Smith 's corps are both heah at Murfreesboro , with a strong brigade at Stewart 's creek , an ' another at Lavergne . Ye 'd better fallin with Boscall 's rijiment , which 'll go out ter Lavergne to-night , ter relieve one o ' the rijiments thar . Ye 'd better not try to git back heah ag ` in tell arter the battle .