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number of hours for a place to sleep in the city (you see, the exodus from the north, and the encroaching army of Americans caused a congestion of sorts) I at last obtained a bed - little more - and reported at one of the headquarters. There I received the same reception that I always noticed that the casuals received - no one knew anything about what I was to do or where my comrades were. [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] My own conception of a country at war was not to hang around indefinitely, so on verbal orders from a mere second Lieutenant I proceded to join my squadron, after luckily meeting up with Lt. ^[[Henry]] Pointer in Tours.

Pointer and I finally found that the only train we could get left Tours at 6:39 ^[[A.M.]] so we met at the appointed time and got a slow moving toot-tooter that gave us a ride through the prettiest