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The next morning it commenced to rain, and continued the next day & night, just at dark Wednesday night we went on the boat wet & cold so that few got any sleep that night. Thursday it snowed all day and night so that it was four inches deep, then it was so cold a person could not sleep. Yesterday although the Sun shown bright it thawd but very little, to day is very pleasant. At the fort when we left everything combustable was ready to burn, the fortifications have all been thrown down, and the Magazine is to be blown up & the place will be abandoned. The report is current here that our mail home from Vixburg was destroyed by our Gen., will give you a list of my letters that I have not received an answer to, the first, the Sunday we left Memphis, second written on the trip down mailed at Vix., three just after the fight there, fourth going up the Ark. river, fifth last Monday, sixth this scrawl [begin vertical writing] I received a letter from Lucy yesterday they are all well. She says that Allen Colby had his leg shot off before Fredricberg [vertical writing end]