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and it was not a very soft bed but nevertheless we slept very well for we were nearly gone up with fatigue. Tuesday night we got marching orders for this place we were ordered to be in line of battle Wednesday morn by 6 o clock (by the by the 108 Ill & 97 Ill is with us and has been through all our travel) Wednesday morn came and off we started we thought it would be a good road we marched about a mile then we came to a hill. Yes a hill and it took just two hours to get the wagons up that hill by the by I and 9 more were gaurds for the wagon we had prety good road for 3 miles the came the tug of war. Talk about hills in Alton they would be called little mounds to the hills we had to come over yes and those hills are rocky it seems impossible to pass on horsback, but still we had to bring those wagons. Thair was 3 hills that thought we would never get up we had to go inch by inch up them