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four doz. Houses, some few of them are neat cottages, with prettyly laid out front yards, while the majority are mere shells of houses. Almost every house has the marks of shells from our gunboat. Monday after pitching our tents a party of us went our forageing succeeding in getting Sweet Potatoes & fresh Pork. On Tuesday notwistanding a drisling rain we were ordered to our present encampment to clean off the ground (for it was a corn field not gathered) and entrench for the camp. About 4 P. M. orders came to move to our new camp, now this was pretty hard on the men after working all day, to move a mile without waggon's for the waggons were still down