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the mud was deep, and all the mules fell down, so that we had to leave the wagon, and one of the mules if we had not fastened a long chain to it and pulled it our. Such are the beauties of the Sunny South. While hard tack and salt junk constitute high life in Louisann. There is but very little nerves or excitement in camp, we are laying here as you would inactive, if such you could call it, when we are on picket every fifth day, every other day when it does not rain, we are at work on the canal, the balance of the time we drill from two four pr. day. The former digging of the canal was from fifteen to twenty feet in width, it is not to be