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Anson R. Butler letters, 1861-1900
1862-10-29 Page 3
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I left him, saying that he'd better come over to our side. He touched his hat to me & shook his head saying never. Well I saw the sights & went aboard. after I had put my things away I was walking the cabin & who should I see but John Godley a young man that used to write for Allison in the office. He is in artillery service from Chicago. Several of the [illegible] I went to dinner in the cabin with a 50 ct ticket to try the 1st table, found it no better than the 2d, lit my pipe & went out on the lower deck & looked around. Saw the wreck of the Beauregard a rebel Gun B. that was sunk in the fight; soon afterwards passed the remains of the one that went to the Arkansas shore & blew up. soon after passed a plantation on the Ark. shore where the whole had been burnt by the rebels, leaving the large outside old-fashioned chimney standing [We are now?] steaming ahead to our journeys end. Today is very warm, like midsummer with Iowa except that the atmosphere is hazy. We are now almost to Helena where I shall mail this and then shall not probably write for a few days, till I have a chance to look around. There are several of our boys left to follow us
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I left him, saying that he'd better come over to our side. He touched his hat to me & shook his head saying never. Well I saw the sights & went aboard. after I had put my things away I was walking the cabin & who should I see but John Godley a young man that used to write for Allison in the office. He is in artillery service from Chicago. Several of the [illegible] I went to dinner in the cabin with a 50 ct ticket to try the 1st table, found it no better than the 2d, lit my pipe & went out on the lower deck & looked around. Saw the wreck of the Beauregard a rebel Gun B. that was sunk in the fight; soon afterwards passed the remains of the one that went to the Arkansas shore & blew up. soon after passed a plantation on the Ark. shore where the whole had been burnt by the rebels, leaving the large outside old-fashioned chimney standing [We are now?] steaming ahead to our journeys end. Today is very warm, like midsummer with Iowa except that the atmosphere is hazy. We are now almost to Helena where I shall mail this and then shall not probably write for a few days, till I have a chance to look around. There are several of our boys left to follow us
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