...iddle of the night and has a horse saddled to go and inspect pickets, or is waked up with some difficulty, to be told that somebody is somewhere firing at something, which always settles itself, like Napoleon 's unanswered letters. Advanced Picket Station, May 18 Dearest Mother: . . We miss grass ... grass and female society I might say .... General Lander's widow ... came out hoping it was war and...