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his duties are the same as an orderly Sergeant. He is but little loss to the company for he is a poor soldier. And barely half the manlyness of a child. When he was on the Company boat as guard, where he could get whisky, he was drunk half the time. He is to receive thirty-five dollars per month. I could get the position of first Lieut. if I would axcept it. I thought it was much preferable to serve my Country with white men. Our pioneers are tunelling under one of the enemys forts for the purpose of blowing it up, it has been tried before but without success. In McPhersons Corps he has a land Monitor which is steadily advancing towards the enemys works. I have not seen it but will describe it as near as I can from what I have heard. It is a regular built fort with two pieces of Artillery with some Infantry built with cotton bales and dirt upon wheels. There are timbers laid on the ground so that it can be moved along by levers as fast as is required. It was first built on the brow of the hill about one hundred yards from the fort, and commenced moving it in an oblique direction toward it, throwing up breast works behind it sufficient to protect our men, from enemy fire they can bring against us, in this way our