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We have received no mail now for more than a month but I presume there is mail for us with the other part of the battery 1-2 and No 4 guns Camped on Flint river Ala. It has been rumored in our Camp that our Capt has been promoted to Col of Artillery. I hope it will prove true. although the battery would lose a splendid officer as a man he is not well liked. We hear but little news here, only what we get from forage trains from Chattanooga. We hang back here and listen to the 34 lb Surge guns driving the rebs off Lookout Mt and have not the least desire to have a hand in the muss