Dear Brother I take my pencil in hand to wright you a few lines when I from home I got to Indianapolis that night. Capt thare one day and started for St Louis the next one got in the car s at Indianapolis at noon and got on the grand prarie in Ill at sundown we was all night and till 9 o clock the next morning crossing the grand prarie and we arived a Illanois town at 11 o clock we then crossed to St Louis and and went thore the town without a gun the Union citizens tell us it is a wonder we were not all of us killed and Collenel Davis tells us we we will not be in as much dainger