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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Floyd's Brigade.

Headquarters, Floyd's Brigade, Camp Jackson, July 2, 1861.
There are now encamped here about seventeen hundred men — infantry — most of whom are armed and well drilled. Six more companies of infantry are expected in a few days. There are three companies of cavalry, one from Smith, one from Lee, and one from Nelson, containing in all about two hundred and fifty men. Several more companies of cavalry are expected in a few days.

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