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to a provision train of ours crossing in those regions. Now 3-5-6 and 7 are there under command of Lieut Robinson and Nos 1 - 2 and 4 are with the Captain. Since leaving Chattanooga and while at Bridgeport portions of the battery have been doing picket duty on the Tenn river, our pickets being on one bank and the rebel pickets on the other. Our gun has had its share of the work, and consequently I have had frequent and lengthy conversations with our cotemporaries from the South with whom we we were very friendly. The river in most places is a little more than a 1/4 of a mile wide and as the pickets seldom fire on each other, we would go down on the bank, and after making an agreement we would send out a delegate to