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fight our battles over again.

That style of fighting is decidedly preferable to the singularly prevalent method adopted during the last five years, and which, with all its wounded glory and honor yet had some striking disadvantages.

It has pleased the Great Arbiter of events to spare me from any bodily injury, and even to confirm my originally good constitution. Not so with you, my gallant friend, the limbs you sacrificed to your country's cause, could not however have been lost more nobly, and I trust you will live long "to bear your blushing honors thick upon you."

The great rebellion is in process of suppression, I say "in process," because I believe the great body of the Southern people to be more rampant blatant and every other taut rebels than they were in 1860, the opinion of those in high places to the contrary notwithstanding.

Talk about reconstruction, and an acquiescence with the present state of affairs, why the passport to office in this district is a rebel uniform and beastly abuse of the Yankee and