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The ground that we are confined on belonges to officer by the name of Young, he is now in the rebel camp he has seven plantations of about a section of land each, I have seen three of them, the buildings are all built of a uniform nature, with one neat cottage, at the rear and parallel with the river are built the negro cabbins, which are warm and comfortable, The river is now on a level with the land, it looks strange at a distance in see the boats they look as though they were on dry land The level is built about ten feet high and thirty feet broad at the bottom, if the river keeps rising there is a good prospect of being drowned out from a break in the level above, this break has been fixed in some extent, but I do not think that fresh dirt will stand much washing. J. T. Beam has today received an [illegible] telegraph dated the 80th containing [Cal.?] [illegible] report of the 97th at Ark. [illegible], all it wants to receive praise is to have a commission and to be on the field.