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in fact a model day for any pursuit and
after we had breakfasted the Colonel addressed me
in the following morning "Frends: are you
ripe for an adventure to day?" I made answers
and said that I was never in a better mood
for any thing of the kind- "well' he says "dare
you ride where I dare ride" I respectfuly submitted
that it was my firm conviction that wherever
he was a mind to ride that there he would find
me by his side- "well then we will make a
reconaisance in front to day and perhaps we
will be able to perform some brilliant feats and
get our names into the papers we can get
gobbled up I guess if nothing more
Having armed ourselves with pistols each of us
with one small belt pistol and one large colts
Navy in our holsters we mounted our best
horses accompanied by one mounted Sergeant
with swords left behind as we were not on duty
and after having laughingly bid the boys good bye
saying that the mext thing they would hear from
us would be that we were in Libby prison
or some other sweet scented place ^in Secessdom
we left them
The course taken by us was to go back towards
our old camp so far as to get outside of our
Salem pickets and leave us outside of the pickets
of the grand army and through streams and
vallies over hills and racks we winded our