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Then J. Doane thinks "picket duty worse than the battle field," does he? perhaps he has not passed through a hard fought battle, or heard the minie bullets flying around him with that peculiar buzz, something like that of a large humble bee, and which no other bullet has, varied by the rattling of the limbs of trees around him as they are cut off by the shells and solid shot, as they go on their way over your heads, whilst our own cannons are belching forth in tones of thunder, a couple of rods in your rear, and right over your heads, their messengers of death and destruction. But I admit that there is an excitement