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it from side to side I have ben over part, but hurried past as the Reggiment did not halt, when we passed down, I saw a few of the Iowa boys graves, I was talking to a pirson that was in the battle from his description it must have ben a desperate struggle, and a very hard, and tiresome retreat. There is one sink, where the poor boys were huddled together. (about 20 of them) with stones and a little ground thrown over them, and now the bones are visible. one man said he saw three scalp's and a great many other bones on the tops of the ground. he took a tooth from one of the scalps as relic from the ground. We passed over the [Pea?] Ridge B.ground coming up and their were the signs of battle I saw trees eighteen inches through torn down by the invincible force of the cannon balls. Some trees