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are furnished with self capping Springfield rifle's it is a very ingenious made gun. When you cock the gun it places a cap on the [tube?]. The other companies have the old Harpers Ferry flint lock musket altered. They are old and rusty made in about 1820. Many of them are so rusty that the bayonett will not come of. [Achembach's?] men are all mad as they can be because we have got the best guns. The other accoutrements consist of cartridge box with shoulder strap belt with cap box and bayonet scabard. Also a strap for the gun and ten rounds of cartridge per man. I saw in yesterday St. Louis Democrat that the 97 was under marching orders. One thing is sure they will not