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THE SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS IN EARLY DAYS.
me. I then proceeded, to Wilkinsonville, where Col. Strong had arrived a short time before with the Second Regiment and encamped, when I borrowed an anchor cable and from the rope, having lost all mine in the quicksand on the Mississippi, as well as three cannon which I was obliged to use for anchors, and my shrouds for cables, after a voyage of more than three hundred days. After recruiting my crew I again proceeded for Pittsburgh, where I expected to arrive in the spring following 1802, as I should be necessarily delayed at the falls of the Ohio in fixing a tin of ring-bolts in the rocks, in order to warp over them in the spring of 1802; but I had not proceeded farther than between the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland
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