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Camp Ewell, February 7, 1865, 11 o'clock P. M. Since writing to you on yesterday, notwithstanding the severe snow and sleet which now bids fair to put an end to military operations on these lines, there has been an almost continuous engagement near Hatcher's run. Shortly after writing yesterday morning, our division (Gordon's) was ordered back to camp. All were congratulating themselves that the movement was over, and were preparing warm dinners, when suddenly orders came to move at once.--Many a poor soldier looked back with disappointment at his dough just ready for the oven, or his peas, not yet boiling briskly; yet they moved off cheerfully, and soon came up to the assistance of Johnson's brigade of North Carolina troops, who were on picket opposite the point at which, on Sunday, our picket line was captured. This brigade acted nobly; and although the enemy advanced in force upon their picket line with two whole corps, they held their ground until reinforced by Evans's
ultimo. it is said that Brignoll is again going to try his fortune in Madrid, this time with Patti. Hawthorne's works are to be published in French, before long, by a new publishing house in Paris. a San Francisco letter tells of three tons of gold, in bars, arriving in that city from Sacramento. the following resolutions were adopted by the privates and non-commissioned officers of the Seventeenth Virginia regiment (Infantry), Corse's brigade, Pickett's division, February 7, 1865: 1. "Resolved, That we reverently recognize in the affairs of men a ruling Providence, without whose aid no good can be accomplished, and that we humbly and earnestly invoke his blessing upon our country and our cause. 2. "That in the terms proposed by the President of the United States to our commissioners we see no alternative but to submit like cowards or fight like men, and, as Virginians and Southrons, we accept the gage of battle thus tendered, pledging ourselves to kee