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May 25th. Commences with pleasant but warm weather. From four to eight A. M. heard musketry-firing in rear of Port Hudson. This morning Lieut. Watson went across the point to communicate with lower fleet; at eleven A. M. steamer Bee came down the river and communicated with us. Received on board three more rebel prisoners from the Albatross; at one P. M. sent fourteen rebel prisoners, in charge of Lieut. Higby, U. S. M. Corps, and fourteen marines, to Bayou Sara; the lower fleet shelling Port Hudson; at six thirty P. M. called all hands, got up anchor and steamed up river; at seven P. M. came to anchor a little further up the river. Lieut. Rigby and the marines returned to the ship; at eleven forty P. M. beat to general quarters.