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Cairo May 3d 1861 Dear Brother again I take my pen in hand to write a few lines we arrived here yesterday about 10 all well and hearty. we expected to see a great excitement here but there is no more sighnes of fighting here than there was at Springfeld I dont much believe there will be any soon they stoped a Boat here day before yesterday that was going south with 100.000 dollars worth of lead and fire arms they took it all off here and piled it up here on the levy. Cair is not much of a place if we should have rainy weather here we would have great times here we are in a low place so when it rains we will be in a pond of water. we like it