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vicinity of the city were consolidated and furnished with new tents of the "Bell" pattern, holding from 10 to 12 men each; there is about 200 tents in the camp, and 2,400 men, and it presents a neat appearance. I send you a photograph of the State House, which pretty good, but the cotton bales are now removed; the hill on which it stands is quite stony and rough and strewn with blocks of limestone used in [fortifying?] about the building; there are 12 guns at present stationed there, 4 of them being 30 pounder [Parrots?], the tents in the picture are of the "Sibley" pattern such as we have. The interior of it is grand and massive in its designs, the grand hall leading to