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recover to her usual health. Before I had finished reading my letters last night, orders came to prepare one days rations and be ready to march amediately. At 9 oclock the Reg. started from Holmes Plantation for this place, a distance of ten miles. Comp. G. was detailed as rear guard to the division, to keep up straglers. It is a tedious job to be kept behind a baggage train a couple miles in length, when the roads are bad, and teams are continualy stalling. Our progress was so slow that at 4 oclock in the morning we had made but eight miles, we then laid down and slept an hour, after which we got in camp as soon as the train