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e shape of camp-kettles of an explosive nature. In fact, they are magnificent grave-diggers as well as grave-fillers. "Our pickets are some three-fourths of a mile in front, and the blue abdomens five hundred yards distant. "Major-General Field and staff passed down the line this morning whilst the gunboat missiles were most promiscuously flying, but neither himself nor staff exhibited any inclination to dodge. General Field is certainly made of good staff. "During Brigadier-General Banning's absence, (wounded,) Colonel Dubose, of the Fifteenth Georgia, is in command of his brigade, and is a valuable officer. "The weather is oppressively warm, and we have no shelter from the sweltering heat. Water, too, is scarce, and we suffer much for the want of it. "Our new mortar is in position in a good place, and proves palpably annoying to the Yankees, who pay a great portion of their respects to it alone.--Both sides are manŒuvering for position, and each move so f