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were covered over with dust so that I hardly knew our cap't. After dinner and the boys are telling yarns and acting the fool so much that I cannot write half well on with my story. We started about 9 o clock shore is some beautiful country along the river as well as some of as rough country as I have seen. It looks like the old mountains and some pretty towns. Alton is the prettiest. St. Louis is the greatest city I ever seen. When we landed at the wharf there was fifty or sixty Boats laying before the citty. The streats in the market part of town are not paved all over. The people appeared to be very patriotic. They kept up