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that threw shells at us last winter, in the Yazoo bottom - then returning down the river batteries to Camp looking at the guns both water and bluf batteries Saw the renowned Whistling Dick which was the terror of all Gun Boats before it was damaged, it is now cracked in the breach. It has had two feet broken off from the mussle, but is not twelve feet long carrying a ball six inches in diamater, and one foot and a half long (instead of two and a half as Harpers weekly says) I find from observation that our division has done as much or more work, than any other, and with one