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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
� 96 April 18, 1862 Sailing down the Potomac}
We are having a most pleasant trip. It is warm and at the same time breezy. As we passed Fort Washington the garrison cheered us lustily and their band played.
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Now we are off Matthias Point and moving slowly over the shoal places. It grows cloudy and looks like rain. It sprinkles. We shall have something of a storm tonight. We have passed the rebel batteries and the wonder to all is that the enemy should ever have deserted them.