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20th I put my flax in water to rot this morning at 12 oclok
Col with his command of Draggoons or minute
men arived in this in good health & spirits. President
addressed them a short time And said
By virtue of the Office which I hold I bless you all in the
name of the Lord & if you will live your religion & do
right you shall none of you fall by the Hand of an Enemy
but you shall eat peaches & Apples in this untill you
go to Missouri & your Enemies shall not
conquer you. keep your guns & fire locks in good order &
do not waste your aminition for Naught, it is not a
day for much preaching but a day for hard service this
is not much that we have to meet with this fall but next
year we must be prepared for work Gen followed
with few words & told then whare to go for quarters
they went to the variouse places allotted them. I spent the
day in the . I spent the night or evening till 9 oclok at the
Office arived at 9 oclok He rode down the to
from there to this City. He brought some Letters to the president
& others. I stoped at the Globe a short time in conversation
with Brother Clements who thinks that would
surrender if he had an opportunity to do it in a way that He would
not be censured by the Government. The is in a critical
situation & destruction seems to await them let them do what
they will
