at that rate, so many lose their baggage entirely.  The trains on the road running North and South and East and West do not make close connection, so that every time I changed cars I had to wait from twelve to twenty four hours.  At El Passo I found company going to Nevada. A Mr. Childs from the 32nd Iowa, and his Sister Mrs Webb she was returning from a visit to Peoria, he was going home on a ten days leave from St. Louis, where the 32d is now; Mrs Webb is rather a coarse woman, but her brother took care of my baggage, and I felt very much obliged to him. We left El Passo Thursday night at 9 1/2 O'clock, got to Dixon the next morning at three, and then we had to wait till the next night 1 1/2 O'clock; there we took a through train to Nevada, we took breakfast at Cedar Rapids and,
