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Evansville Ind.
March 11th 1867

Major General
Wager Swayne
Assistant Commissioner B.R.F.& A.L.

Sir:
The steamboats Olive Branch and Louisa, are being loaded with the corn for Alabama.  The former for New Orleans, the latter for Tuscumbia.

I expect that both will be loaded by Wednesday at the furthest when the whole will be sent forward completing the orders for Tuscumbia, Huntsville, and Decatur, Mobile, Demopolis, Tuscaloosa, Selma, Talladega, Greenville, Montgomery and Eufaula.

It is raining so persistently that there is no certainty to a day when the boats will get loaded.

The country is flooded from Louisville, down and the water is still rising.  The corn has been brought on with flatboats and ferryboats, the wails being entirely under water.

Whole towns are submerged, and the country is one vast lake.  God only knows where it will all end. 

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
W.C. Arthur

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