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Endfield Rifles. The suppesition is that we shall go into camp here while the boats go back for more troops, every one will rejoise to once more get on land, there is so much sickness on board. The report here to day is that the gun boat Benton has come up from below Vixburg, I guess it is all talk. I have been reading a book that I confiscated, Tit for Tat, a reply to Dred, it was very interesting, it shows to what extent slavery is carried on in England among the Chimney Sweeps. The writer thinks they ought first to pluck the beam out of their own eye, before they dictate to their brother Americans. Thursday noon. We run down during the night to the mouth of the Yazoo. I feel some better this morning, although I am continualy coughing.