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a yellow flower, such as you have in your borders early in the spring; I send you a few seeds of the prickly pear, which grows wild here; I do not know as they will germinate. A portion at least of the army at Murfreesboro started out last Tuesday with five days provisions; it looks as if another forward movement was on foot. The east Tennesseeans are flocking in in large numbers and enlisting; a hundred prisoners were brought in last night. There is 23 hospitals in this city at present and 2000 graves in the union burying-ground, at present. I enclose an extract from one of