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across the muddy bottoms. The wheat in this section has been headed out these two weeks. Gen. Pope's divis. went on board boats at New Madrid during the 12, 13 and 14th of Apr. Our reg. got on board during the 14th and proceeded down the Mississippi about fifty miles but something did not work as expected so after some delay we returned up the Mississippi, up the Ohio and up the Tennessee rivers being on the boats until the 22nd when we landed at Hamburge landing Tennessee two miles below Pitsburge landing. The rivers were all very high especialy the Mississippi and Ohio. There was a vast amount of water in Cairo and the water threatened to wholy submerge that place. Below Cairo there was but few places that any earth could be seen. Island no. 10 remained high above the water and looked savage as ever. Our reg. has moved many times since we have been here and we have had sevral skirmishes. Major Arlington with sevral others of this reg. has been killed and sevral horses killed. The Secessionists don't stand well before the western unionists. I think the rebels will suffer a severe defeat at this place unless they manage to evacuate and that will afford them but a short relief. I suppose you are posted in regard to the vast military opperations taking place here and of our glorious success at other points. We have papers up to the 14th and they cost $.15 per coppy. When the decisive opperations will commense here I cannot say. The union coil is daily being placed around the rebels in Corinth at every squirm they make the coil becomes tighter and the bones will soon begin to crack. The hospital at Hamburge, two miles above Pitsburge instead of below