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would not enlist so that a draft had to be enforced, the draft goes forward very tectiously and at a great expense owing to the opposition by northern traitors. Those copperheads not only keep men out of the field but they are a source of great encouragement to the southern rebels. Those two-hundred rebel officers that we guarded up the river from Port Hudson, rejoyced with exceeding great joy over the news of the riot in New-York Boston and other places that was the only encouragement left them all else was dark and discourageing. They had lost much valuable ground with many thousand men but the draft in the north had been openly resisted and on that fact the rebels formed their hopes of a southern Confedracy. The weather is exceedingly hot down here in the sunny south but as far as I know the health of our army is tolerable good but all those soldiers that run into excesses of various kinds, soon take up their quarters in the hospital, such at least has been the case in this regt. There is three men from this company in the hospital and six in the guard-house, there is thirty or forty in the guard-house from the regt. one with a ball and chain attached to his ancle. One commissioned officer of this company is under arrest. Taking all these things into consideration you can have some little idea how bad the men act while camped so close to this big wicked city. If Memphis was weighed in the ballence it would be found wanting ten righteous men to save it. A number of men belonging to this regt.have been robbed in Memphis, generaly while in a state of intoxication or at houses of ill fame