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Wednesday Morn this is a delightful cool morning. I received yours and Sa. letter dated the 19th last evening it came through with commissary stores fro grand Gulf, it is hard to tell which was the most acceptable, for I was glad to see both, and this is a poor country for forageing, it is so near Vicksburg that every thing that could be spared has been taken by the Rebs. Our camp is eight north of Port Gibson, on the bank of bayou Pier the same as runs past the town where they burnt the bridge they undertook to burn the bridge at this place, but our forces were so close as to put it our before it done much damage. The bridges are both new suspencions of about two hundred feet span. Port Gibson is a verry pretty neat town, about the sise and looks much like Jerseyville. I should hate to live