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Oliver Boardman correspondence and journals, 1861-1863

04_1862-03-12 Page 02

was more costly. The Miney and Enfield guns are among the costliest but they are to heavy there is to much riging about them to suit me. the guns that weve got are alight and well finished gun they are called the Springfield rifle musket they are fixed with sights that you can raise and they will shoot five hundred yards. now you know all about them and I expect the next time you hear from me you will hear of our using them. well I must get back to my story again. the morning of the 11th.. we left Cairo also the Mississippi and took up the Ohio here the scene changed a little the Ohio was about as high as it ever gets and there was no banks along the Kentucky shore like there was along the Missouri consequently all the farms on the Kentucky side were under water but the people that lived there seemed to have pretty good pluck they would stand in the door and look out at us seemingly as unconcerned as could be when they couldnt step out without steping in water up to their chins and no bank within aquarter of a mile these were just the worst cases however. that night we got to Paducah where we laid till about two oclock the next morning which hapened to be this morning then we took up

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was more costly. The Miney and Enfield guns are among the costliest but they are to heavy there is to much riging about them to suit me. the guns that weve got are alight and well finished gun they are called the Springfield rifle musket they are fixed with sights that you can raise and they will shoot five hundred yards. now you know all about them and I expect the next time you hear from me you will hear of our using them. well I must get back to my story again. the morning of the 11th.. we left Cairo also the Mississippi and took up the Ohio here the scene changed a little the Ohio was about as high as it ever gets and there was no banks along the Kentucky shore like there was along the Missouri consequently all the farms on the Kentucky side were under water but the people that lived there seemed to have pretty good pluck they would stand in the door and look out at us seemingly as unconcerned as could be when they couldnt step out without steping in water up to their chins and no bank within aquarter of a mile these were just the worst cases however. that night we got to Paducah where we laid till about two oclock the next morning which hapened to be this morning then we took up