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mother considerably during her illness. Well I cannot be blamed, for since leaving Bridgeport, our battery or portion of it has been on the keen run from morning to night and frequently we have travelled over a long portion of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, crofsed and recrofsed mountains. We have made some heavy advances and heavier retreats, played out from 12 to 20 horses in a day, broke from 2 to 5 wheels in the same time, and raised the [devil] generally, and now for the first time 4 guns have been permitted to lay in camp 4 days, while the other 3 are off in the mountains, after a force of the rebel cavalry. Who seem to have evil intentions