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on Berwick Bay, it is eighty miles from New Orleans on the oposite side of the river. I presume we shall go by Rail Road. All the Regiments in our Brigade, have been paid but ours, if I get paid before I leave here, shall enclose in this fifteen dollars. Yester I borrowed some money and went into the city, to get me some Shirts. I have got so that now I will wear nothing but Woolen, and I had rather buy them than to wear [illegible] such as Government furnishes. Besides all I have bought I have drawn forty five dollars worth of clothing. Some of the boys have drawn as high as eighty dollars. All that we are