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Federal prisoners. Deserters and Straglers are picked up and sent here, where they are tried, and sent to their Respective Regiments or to prison as their case may require. Our average number is about one hundred, we send off prehaps fifteen, or twenty dureing the day, and receive as many more again at night, besides guarding the men, we have to send squads of men to guard the prisoners to diferent places, one squad has gone to Vicksburg, another to Brashear City. Hobson and four men have gone to Key West with some deserters who are sentenced to ten years hard labor, they will probably be gone three weeks. So takeing it all togather it keeps our men on duty nearly all the time