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March 12th.. 1862 Well Henry I write to you this morning from on board the Crescent City sailing up the Tennessee river. we left Tipton the 6th arrived at St Louis on the 7th and marched on board of a large boat called the Crescent City where we have been ever since and expect to be as long as there is water enough in the Tennessee to run our boat I believe the calculation is to go on up the river untill we get to Florence in Alabama. well to give you all the particulars I must begin at the begining. well we had a nice trip coming from Tipton til St Louis the people seemed glad to see us leave they waved their hats and hankerchiefs all along the road and some went so far as to hurrah for Jeff Davis but I expect we was as glad to get away as they were to see us go we left St Louis on the afternoon of the 9th. and sailed down the Mississippi as far as Cairo where we arrived in the night of the 10th. nothing happened on the way down except fine weather steep rocky bluffs with now and then a green Cedar out on aledge of rock that projected out over some tremenduous precipice. (how romantic) about that time we changed our old muskets for rifles I believe we have the best guns now that I have seen since I have been out I have seen some that
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March 12th.. 1862 Well Henry I write to you this morning from on board the Crescent City sailing up the Tennessee river. we left Tipton the 6th arrived at St Louis on the 7th and marched on board of a large boat called the Crescent City where we have been ever since and expect to be as long as there is water enough in the Tennessee to run our boat I believe the calculation is to go on up the river untill we get to Florence in Alabama. well to give you all the particulars I must begin at the begining. well we had a nice trip coming from Tipton til St Louis the people seemed glad to see us leave they waved their hats and hankerchiefs all along the road and some went so far as to hurrah for Jeff Davis but I expect we was as glad to get away as they were to see us go we left St Louis on the afternoon of the 9th. and sailed down the Mississippi as far as Cairo where we arrived in the night of the 10th. nothing happened on the way down except fine weather steep rocky bluffs with now and then a green Cedar out on aledge of rock that projected out over some tremenduous precipice. (how romantic) about that time we changed our old muskets for rifles I believe we have the best guns now that I have seen since I have been out I have seen some that
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