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that their daily ration was a gill of whiskey, but that on that day (a battle day) every one had as much as he wanted. The prevailing tone of these conversations indicated weariness with war, and improved ideal of Southern barbarism, a blaming of the emancipation party North. We moralized upon the softening influence of adversity upon some minds, and the decided alteration of cases by such circumstances. A large majority of those we conversed with were foreigners--Irish, Germans, Scotch, French. They grow facetious at rebel outfits, equipments, uniforms, and rebel devotion to their rebellion. One remarked that usually the first they see of the rebels in an attack is when they emerge from the edge of a wood a thousand yards off; a little Colonel, in his shirt sleeves and copperas pantaloons, pops out in front and commands: "Fix bayonets!"-- "charge bayonets!"--and on they come at a long run, just as if they didn't know any better! Another, illustrating our passion for stormin