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VISITS' ALL j'I3SiSSI??I CCAST TC' T?S TAUvirj TO SUPPCRTLRS
August -- 1873
(Letter from Gen. Adelbert A"-es at Shieldsboro, Avgust 15, 1?73, to his vife, 1?rs. Blanche Eutler A^es, and two children st Bay Viev, Mass.)
August 15, 1873 __ Shieldsboro, Kiss.
I vas on a tramp yesterday and had no opportunity to -write to you.
Pass Christian & r'ississjppj City
r;av before yesterday, ve, Fajor Gibbs, Capt. Raymond,
Cant. Cass and Collector Lindsay vent by rail to Pass Christian, a distance of some six miles.
He remained at the Pass till about seven in the evening vher. ve tool: a train and vent some nine miles further east to Mississippi City.
Mississippi City is a very small place, but has a very large hotel. It is all hotel--one of the old time watering places, patronized by Kev Orleans people. Cur stay there vas but for an hour.
Three Companies of U. 5. troops are stationed there to avoid the heat and sickness of the city (Kev Orleans). The Regimental Band is there, and the effect vas some like a "orthern watering place.
fast Pascagoula
At the end of the '-our, and after ve had supper, ve took another train and vent some forty miles still further east to East Pascagoula.
Beins in a crovd, and of a crowd, ve vere compelled to play cards veil after midnight.
?'oss Point
In the morning ?-?e all got aboard a steam tug and vent some six or eight miles 'or> the Pascagoula River tD a place called 1'oss Point ^here there are very extensive "ills for converting the vellov pine logs into lumber.
'~e vere gone nearly all day, and though somevhrt vesried
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