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Here is one copied from a sand-bag on the grand parapet: follow us, and we will give you what you won't need. Just come out A few miles. All we want is A Fair showing. Is this a delphic utterance veiling some mysterious danger in wait for us ahead, or possibly a weak invention of the enemy? Here is another which, if not specific, is at least expressive of a certain courageous mortification at the last rebel skedaddle: To the B'hoys from Lincolndom — from Dixie. Yorktown, May 2. We leave you by order of our superiors, but we do so with the consolation of meeting you soon again. Know, gentlemen, that we are more anxious to do so now than ever before. The war has just begun. You will have to contest every inch of ground with us after this. For this is the last time we obey orders to retreat without trying your mettle, let them emanate from whom they may; and ours are the feelings of every soldier from Louisiana. We are, with the compliments of the non-commi