Fred hass still not joined them but John has heard that he is in Lexington trying to secure a discharge. They will soon be sailing on a boat down the river at Vicksburg. A number of the soldiers are ill - twenty-two in John's company, and one died last Wednesday.

The small pox is in the town of Memphis and they have all received the [?cowpox] which has worked wonders on his arm.
They will be starting their voyage tomorrow morning but there are at least seventy boats there already.