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13 New boots were issued to us day or two before and such boots, hurt your feet in every place just like iron. Well! they loaded everything conceivable on us so our pack must have weighed very near 80 or 90 lbs besides other things that we never had use for, stood us in the dark about two hours with this pack on, and when they thought we was about ready to faint, we started for the station only about 2 1/2 miles. we got there after awhile and got aboard the train. odd[?] trains and odd[?] engines but they go like the wind. we were packed like sardines, took my shoes of to ease my feet and about 4 yards of cloth we have to wrap around our legs from ankles to knees, it was part of our dress. went to sleep until we got there about daylight next morning, could not find this cloth and had lost my hat [?]. was that sleepy and tired did not care much but I looked bad stockings half way up my leg, bare from top of stockings to above knees limping along we saw a nice large ship thought it was for us