Down the Potomac it is said that the pickets sometimes put off their boats, meet and converse with each other; but this we hardly believe.
Up the river, where the men are within hail, there are frequent interchanges of rough sentiment and the hardest kind of jokes. On one occasion a Federal picket inquired of a secesh of they ever played "bluff" over there, when the rebel smartly replied, "Yes, Ball's Bluff, sometimes." Fed. was Union down," during the remainder of the interview.
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