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with our Artillery, we can then throw plunging shot into the other forts. A man from Comp. H was shot yesterday while on picket, he was sitting down behind the hill playing Cards, it struck him in the back bone just under the shoulder, and came our under, and passed through his arm above the elbow just as he was in the act of playing his card. He seemed quite cheerful, said that he was not seriously wounded. He was a deserter from the Regt. at Napolean and returned in May to escape the penalty of a deserter. He is severely punished wheather it is for the crime of desertion or not. This is the best country for black berries that I ever saw, but the trouble is to get out side of