Dear Editors.-According to promise I herewith transmit you [the] muster roll of our company. We are all enjoying reasonable health, with the exception of colds and diarrhea, which the boys have brought on themselves, I think, by exposure and indulging their appetites in eating all kinds of trash, which is very plenty in Camp and vicinity.

For my own part, I, with some of the other boys, walked out of Camp to reconnoitre, and came in contact with a peach orchard, the order was given to charge, but "nary secesh" did we capture, but took quite a number of prisoners in the shape of nice ripe peaches and pears.

On yesterday the telegraphic dispatches informed here us that Gen. Fremont had been superceded by Gen. Wool, which created quite a dissatisfaction in camp, but the dispatch of this morning contradicts the report, so we all feel a good deal better satisfied.

It is a very hard matter to enumerate the number of troops stationed at this place; troops are daily arriviing and departing. Some compute the number of soldiers in the barracks at this time to be thirty thousand, and the whole number of soldiers in and about St. Louis at from 75,000 to 80,000.

As for our company and regiment, I would say our company has orders to go to Jefferson City, but our field officers say we cannot leave here until we get our full equipment. Government has furnished our company with the Harper's Ferry muskets. We have been informed that we will receive our uniform this afternoon, and the boys will not be sorry to get them for some of them are getting to look quite needy. We are supplied with provisions as well as soldiers could expect. The 1st Iowa Cavalry from Burlington has arrived here.

But I must close, as duty calls me on other business besides sitting cooped up in my Bunk making crooked marks which, perhaps, no person will thank me for.

Yours affectionately,
P. L. ECKLEY.