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has had one days hard fighting on the 26th four guns of our battery against two rebel batteries. We shelled each other at intervals during the day but neither could succeed in silencing the other. The rebel batteries had a good range on us but fired so high that the shells and pieces of railroad iron pafsed 10 ft over our guns and horses and did us no damage. I do not know whether we damaged them or not. The weather was so warm and as the sun beat down upon us so that we were compelled to rest frequently. You can imagine I looked pretty rough, with my short sleeves rolled up to my shoulders and the perspiration rolling off freely, loading the gun and then dropping in plowed field to dodge the shells coming sometimes, and always can hear it humming through the air