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1861-10-28 Page 2
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we are 12 miles from [Quincy?] it is the worst country i ever saw it is stony there is not a place large enough to put my foot on the ground and the hilliest country i ever saw there is not enough grain here to keep them half the winter and they are pretty near starved now we stop at every house to see them and they complain of not having enough to eat There is five thousand of us we make a string along the road five miles long we are under gen McKinstry we are in his division we travel from 12 to 15 miles a day we hear that price is intrenched and Sigel is firing on him fremont is laying five miles this side of them waiting for to reinforce him then we are to come in if we are needed fremont made a speech and said if we would stand by him he would
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we are 12 miles from [Quincy?] it is the worst country i ever saw it is stony there is not a place large enough to put my foot on the ground and the hilliest country i ever saw there is not enough grain here to keep them half the winter and they are pretty near starved now we stop at every house to see them and they complain of not having enough to eat There is five thousand of us we make a string along the road five miles long we are under gen McKinstry we are in his division we travel from 12 to 15 miles a day we hear that price is intrenched and Sigel is firing on him fremont is laying five miles this side of them waiting for to reinforce him then we are to come in if we are needed fremont made a speech and said if we would stand by him he would
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