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January, 1863.
January, 1
At dawn we are all in line, expecting every moment the re-commencement of the fearful struggle.
Occasionally a battery engages a battery opposite, and the skirmishers keep up a continual roar of small arms; but until nearly night there is no heavy fighting.
Both armies want rest; both have suffered terribly.
Here and there little parties are engaged burying the dead, which lie thick around us. Now the mangled remains of a poor boy of the Third is being deposited in a shallow grave.
A whole charge of canister seems to have gone through him. Generals Rosecrans and Thomas are riding over the field, now halting to speak words of encouragement to the troops, then going on to inspect portions of the line.
I have been supplied with a new horse, but one far inferior to the dead stallion.
A little before sundown all hell seems to break loose again, and for about an hour the thunder of the artillery and volleys of musketry are deafening; but it is simply