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if so I wish he would write one letters are verry axceptable at any time, wd shell not go through Alton shall go through [Indianna?] I told Harry To pay S. Stewart [illegible] for me, I met him in town yesterday on his way to Chicago and paid him There had been between six or seven hundred dollars sent to Alton from the members of this company. Sunday eve have not [gone?] yet may not for two or three days, as transportation can is not be both This evening we had a [grand?] review by General [Austerhaus?] there have ten regiments drawn up in two lines each [line?] double file the general and [staff?] rode by to inspect them, they [illegible] [be?] [stared?] and we were marched past them in companies. It was very tedious it took nearly three hours mostly of the [time?] standing still which harder than marching it is a splendid sight to [take?] [at?] many men in a [body?] the bayonets glistening in the sun looked like a sea of silver, There was several thousand spectators to see us

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