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As I write this there has a dispatch been read to our reserves that the flag of our country once more floats in the breeze over the capital of "Secessia". May it prove to be true, and the "beginning of the end" and that right speedily. We get the Nashville, the same, and the Louisville and Cincinnati daily papers, the next day after publication.

We have got our little tents fixed up so as to about suit us. I have one along with an elderly man from Chicago who's name is Grenell, he is a Christian and a quiet man, We have got a little bunk on each side of out tent (at camp) about two feet wide, with the same distance between them, they are made by driving four forked stick into the ground on which are laid two poles with elm bark wound around them for a bottom on which we lay.