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take leave of me. The sensation in the the country [?]
where, at the news of "Hulls surrender" was [very?]
great. I was in Lexington, & I saw Mr. Clay, at a [pub-?]
lic [public] house, while there he received a letter from [?]
Meigs of Ohio, containing certain intellengence [?]
the fact. Allens & Lewis's Regiments had been [?]
[dered?] out some time before to re-enforce Genl. [?]
but they had not reached his head quarters [before?]
the surrender - they were some where in the [state?]
of Ohio. Jennings & Poague's Regiments, were [also?]
ordered to join the North Western Army. Poague's
Reg. was ahead of ours - Jennings in the rear.
We were encamped near New-port, opposite
Cincinnati, a few days - our encampment was [?]
the ground, where the town of Covington now stands.
It was then a farm, owned & occupied by a man
of the name of Kennedy. From this place, we
marched to Piqua on the Miami, where as re-
mained [remained] a week or ten days, & then moved to [?]
Mary's 30 miles, where we were stationed all
winter. Piqua at that time was a frontier
settlement & was a very [inconsiderable?] village.
Johnson the Indian Agent resided near it. The [?]
around is level & rest - water good. The probabi-
lity [probability] is, that there is a large town there, at this
time. We marched thro' Lebanon & Dayton
both small towns. An incident occurred, early
one morning a few miles from Lebanon, that
is worth [reserding?]. My company was that day
in front. An old lady, probably at least 60 years
of age, & her daughter, a good looking young
woman, came from a cabin near the road
each with a pail filled with butter milk on
her head and in an Irish or Scotch Irish di-
alect [dialect], the elder lady addressed us & asked if we
would accept a [underlined: "treat"] of butter milk from an
old woman; it was all she had to offer us. [?]
many thanks to her & her daughter; saying to them
it was the most acceptable treat we could pos-
sibly [possibly] have received, we drank the milk, [?]