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rear the licking valley, from thence to our present position is one complete line of fortification breast works for infantry are thrown up all the way while at every prominent position batteries of Artty. mostly 32 pounders the country has been under a high state of cultivation but is all a wilderness the fences have been used for fuel while orchards vineyards etc. have been trampled under foot by armie's hundreds of acres of timber have been choped and houses leveled to the ground to give free scope to our guns. Across the road from our camp is a handsome dweling house with once a beautiful slopeing lawn covered with evergreens to night it is covered with