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what the writer would have thought, if he had been in a Soldiers place for a few hours. It would have done you good to have heard the cheers as the passed down the lines a brigade at a time as Grant rode along in review. We are now in the department of the Gulf but if Gen. Banks intends to bring the western troops under as strict a disipline as the eastern troops are, He had better to begin now to build more prisons, and send to the War Department for more troops to guard the 13th Army Corps There is not a very friendly feeling existing between the eastern and western men