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We had candles with us and penetrated about 1 mile into the interior of the earth admiring the many beauties of nature. At the entrance to the cave a river flows in and after following it about 1/2 it is suddenly lost to the sight, going almost perpendicularly down into the bosom of the Earth, and accordingly named the lost river. You spoke of the dissatisfaction which prevailed between the members of the battery and our Captain. This I am sorry to say is too true. In my previous letters home I have always idolized our Capt but as he has been turning himself inside out lately I may be prompted to change my former views of him. The fact of the matter is he does not want this battery called "The Chicago Board of Trade Battery, which it must be called, but wants it called simply Stokes Chicago Battery. Accordingly when the Board of Trade sends us a stand of Colors by Messers Pense and Weeks with inscriptions on them of course in Some manner relating to that honorable body, our Capt willingly refused to accept them and as the boys were crazy to have them, and and Mr. Weeks declared he would present them to us, without the consent of the Capt various means were taken by him to prevent such presentations Among these I may mention the meanest of them, The afternoon that Mr. Weeks left our camp a week ago yesterday, he said he was going to give us our Colors in spite of everything. But to frustrate this the Capt ordered