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better here than we did in Springfield on account of having more liberty of runing about we are on the Bank of the river we can go in Bathing when it gets warm weather the boys are all practicing with revolvers the Cairo boys raised a nice flag pole here yesterday afternoon on the levy there are not more than 3 regiments here but they say there are some placed up and down the river but I dont know how many. John I have not been the least sick since I left home but very near all the rest have been a little sick we left one in the hospital at Springfield by the name of Robert Best we have batterys all along the river but there are no sighnes of any on the other side there was a Boat load of southerners