.ODAy.NTE4Nzk

with the Regt. he reluctantly consented, but the heat of the Sun and excitement was most to much for me. So that when I arrived here yesterday, I was completely used up, to day there is a good breeze stirring, and as long as I keep quiet am quite comfortable, but to sit up or move around gives me pains and cramps in my bowels. Our encampment is about ten miles below the mouth of Red River, and twenty five miles above Port Hudson It is the place our troops struck the river on their retreat from Alexandria. There is a force of about twenty thousand troops here and good fortifications are