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Sergeant Floyd Memorial Bridge, Missouri River, Sioux City, Iowa,

August 16, 2001

[View: west.  42º 26’ 46” N — 96º 22’ 43” W]

[Clark]                                                                          20^th August Monday 1804

Sergeant Floyd much weaker and no better. . .Serjeant Floyd as bad as he can

be   no pulse & nothing will Stay a moment on his Stomach or bowels—

Passed two Islands on the S. S. and at first Bluff on the S S. Serj.’ Floyd Died

with a great deel of Composure, before his death he Said to me, “I am going

away”   “I want you to write me a letter”—