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[See previous page transcription for inverted writing at top of page.] that day, every battery was ordered to give them three National Salutes from every gun, which would have made an exceedingly hot day doubly hot for them. At noon our orders were strict forbiding any one to leave camp as we were to march at 4 P.M. Notwithstanding orders as 4 oclock not one hundred men could be found in camp from the division, so marching was postponed. I had made up my mind to see Vicksburg if I had to run away from the Company to do so after trying to get in for six months.