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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