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river and it threatning a rain which came about Sundown. All but two Companies E. & D. refused to obey the order, which was given three times from Gen. Smith to Col. Martin, and from the latter an equal number of times to our Officers, but of no avail. To pay for our disobeyance, the next was a pleasant day and had the teams to haul our contraptions, as the boys call them without as much as getting a reprimand. Yesterday I was again out forageing, with the same luck as before Potatoes & Pork. While I was out pickets had been sent out with orders to arrest all forageing parties without a commissioned Officer, but the Officer of the pickets was a gentleman and a good Soldier, and allowed us the privalage of comeing to camp three miles, and getting an officer to pass us on. The Regimental teams are forageing to day some of our boys are out with them as guards. Some plantations here have raised their hundreds of acres which is either [begin vertical writing] standing or in crib. [vertical writing end]