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18.

trip was chartered to convey us to Pittsburgh. We sailed on the 6th of December and were eleven days making the voyage to Pittsburgh. The golden Indian Summer prevailed all that time and made the passage the most pleasant journey of my life. Being in no hurry the boat was permitted to stop at various towns along the Ohio to take on or discharge light freight. This afforded one an opportunity to go ashore and visit the towns and inspect their various and interesting activities. The lovely and ever changing panoramas that were gliding by one either hand in the daylight and the moonlight with the autumn tinted shores of the Ohio repeated in her placid waters ? by the echoes of musical strains sometimes awakened by our band left reminiscences of ideal travel which I cannot forget. A short distance above Evansville the surgeon reported to Colonel May that one of the recruits, the one whom he had exempted from the flogging for desertion on two occasions was sinking rapidly and would probably soon die. It appeared that the boat was about to pass his home which could be plainly seen upon the high bank to our left a mile ahead. The young man was lying on the lower deck in a position to see and recognize the familiar scenes about his home. Dr. Wright reported it as his opinion that the man would die when the boat passed that point. The man had been singularly