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to quarters to dry ourselves by the fire in the rain, or in a tent without any fire, whichever was most agreeable. This morning again found us promenading through a drisling rain to the canal which is two miles distant, and was again dismissed on account of the weather. We have a very nice little job there to preform, it has been davided into sections so that each Reg. has to do its share. The former digging was from fifteen to twenty feet in width, it is now to be made sixty feet wide the 97th has 155 feet in length and from two to three feet deep, the dirt has to be wheeled out on barrows