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in the camp Col. Prentiss pronounced ours the best drilled. there were about 6,000 all together John it was nice to see 6000 soldiers all marching to gether I wish you had been here to see it I dont believe you ever saw as pretty a sight in your life I know I never did but it dident look as nice to me as it did to those that were off a little distance from us. Col Paine says he is going to drill us 7 hours every day after this. I hapened to be on the levy last evening when they shot off some of their 32 pounders I was in about 20 feet of them when they went off. they make pretty near as a report as Bob Daviss 4 pounder they are on the point of the Ohio and Mississippi and when they go off and the sound strikes the other shore it sounds like