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hopes were blasted, for at about Midnight the long roll was beat to fall in, verry well we knew what it was for, for in the distance we could hear the almost continuous roar of Artillery. We moved along at quick time with the exceptions of about ten minutes rest untill nine oclock, when we stoped at a little stream to have a good rest, but we had hardly got our Canteens filled, when orders came for us to close up with the rest of the Brigade, heretofore our Reg. had been behind our Brigade Battery, the (Chicago Mercantile) which was about two miles behind the Infantry and five miles from the scene of action, over this distance we doubled quicked nearly all the way, and was amediately