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deep to the horses. The ground is so low here that they have to have surface drainag for the City, so that it takes but a slight rain, to raise the water on the streets. It was the anaversary of our flood in the Yazoo bottom. I could not help thinking how we got upon boxes or anything else to keep out of the water. I must tell you a joke that I played on some convalescent Patrols belonging to the 19th Army Corps (Yankees) they have a spite against the 13th Corps and will arrest every one the can find out without a pass. It was last Sunday Night. I was officiateing as Sergt. of the guard the Patrols kept bringing in squad after squad of men I was a little ad to think that they should arrest every western boy that came along So I took of my dress coat and put on an old blouse and went out on to the street and stationed my self where they could come along so that they might arrest me as soon as they came in sight I started towards our quarters, when the Sergeant halted me. He asked me if I had a pass and where I belonged. I told him that