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the morning laid on the depot untill 10 when we started for camp arived here at 12 tired and sleepy. I have been within the sound of church bells this afternoon but there is to much work to think of going. Since I have been writing have learned that there is an encampment of the enemy within 25 miles of us and each party fearing to make the atack. At this minute the pickets of the out posts (a company of Cavalry) are winding their way to the fortifications on the hills. The road is a facsimile to the one leading up the bluffs to Mr. Coggswell's. The troops that are stationed here are in small boddies a regiment in a place, in the place of our encampment there has been four regiments in the last month the general impression is that we shall be here but a short time