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 12 " I shall now give you my feelings through the whole affair, and I have no doubt when you read this you will feel simi- larly. I marched towards the town in good spirits; and, when the balls began to come thick about me, I expected every one would strike me: as they increased, I re- garded them less; at the bottom of the hill was quite inured to danger, and could have marched to the cannon's month. When the grape-shot came, I suffered more for those who fell than for myself; and, when I first trode upon the dead heaps, it was horrible! In the next twenty or thirty steps I trode upon many more dead, but each impression became less terrible! You see that I have literally been within a few inches, of death,-upon the very verge of eternity! With you, when two or three of your acquaintance die, you say, "These are awful times, death has been very busy, Here he was busy in- deed ! ! Of three officers with whom I dined that day, one was killed and another severely wounded, yet not a hair of my head has been hurt! I am indeed in better. health than ever I was in my life.