Well I would of wrote you before only we was on the march and by the time night come around my dogs fret me so bad I couldnât think of nothing else and when they told us we was comeing up here I thought of course they would send us up in motor Lauras or something and not wear us all out before we got here but no it was drill every ft. of the way and I said to Johnny Alcock the night we got here that when they was sending us up here to die they might at lease give us a ride and he says no because when they send a man to the electric chair they donât push him up there in a go cart but they make him get there on his own dogs. So I said âYes but he travels light and he donât half to go far and when he gets there theyâs a chair waiting for him to set down in it but they load us up like a troop ship and walk us ½ way to Sweden and when we finely get here we can either remain standing or lay down in a mud puddle and tuck ourself in.â
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