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[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
great Freshes — Damages — War

Montgomery, Ala., March 28, 1862.
Never to the memory of man has there been such a teacher in this region, is within a few weeks past. The Alabama river have so the region foreign which to flows for that whole plantations are submerged.--For some days it has been impossible to tell where the channel of the river to, so that to-day, in coming up from Mobile, I saw the Jeff Davis, a fine steamer, in the corn field some distance from the river having affect over trees, cank, and . Many firm houses are being swept off, and I presume many will take their steps, forming a .

The war spirit is surging, and dashing, and sweeping everything before it, even to the coming waters of the Alabama.--The people are just as and determined as they were when the war over Manasses, Leesburg, and other victories. Now it is a and more than like .

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