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are detailed daily from our Reg. My oppinion is that it will again be a failure, but as they do not ask my advise, it would be useless for me to spend my breath in giveing an oppinion. This morning at day break there was heavy canonadeing from the batteries at Vicksburg, it was so cloudy that we could not see anything, th supposition was that a gun boat was running down past the batteries. We are in A. J. Smiths division, under Brgd. Gen. Landrum the latter is a soldier with the soldier's, and a man every inch of him, he told one of our boy's one day to come and see him, that his tent door was always open to do anything for us in his power. Old Smith, as he is called, is liked better