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forage for both man and beast. We left our old Camp at Carrollton immediately after we were paid last Sunday. Crossed the river to Algiers, and there took the cars that evening for Brashear City. The distance is 80 miles nearly all the way through a dense swamp The next morning we crossed Berwick Bay, and went into camp at Berwick City. Tuesday morning our Division started for Texas but the 97th was rear guard to the train (We have 80 waggons in the Division train) The first five miles of our road was through a swamp and the roads were awful muddy, the consequence was we did not get started