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thunder the loudest thunder you ever heard they had nothing in them but Blank cartridges. there was a man got drowned in the Ohio night before last alot of the boys we in bathing and he drowned in about 20 feet of the shore the boys said he could swim too but they dident know what the matter was I guess he took the cramp he belongs to some other regiment. one of the boys in my mess come near drowning the other day it is the man that worked for Gifford he couldent swim and got over his head and other one liked to got drowned this morning but none of our boys. there is a pretty good prospect of some of us going south as far as Memphis and clean the Rebels out and Col Prentiss isent going to take us down there unless he