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secession letter from a captain in Watson's Battery of Artillery, written yesterday morning. He had not time to mail it. It is written to a friend in Natchez, Mississippi, in which he makes use of the following language: I am thoroughly disgusted with the service. Gen. Polk acts more like a priest than a soldier. I don't meet a man once a month who knows any thing about military. I have not seen a field officer who can drill a regiment, or a General who can review a brigade, but McCown, who is an old artillery captain. We are still in Missouri, but expect orders to-day to join Bowen's brigade, at Feliciana, Ky. P. S.--Our pickets have just come in, bringing us the information that five steamers, with Federal troops, and two gunboats, are landing within two miles of us. We are all ordered under arms. Yours truly, Dan. If Dan or his friend would like the original, I will send it to them at the end of the war. I have his name and address. I have also a letter f
rson, Virginia, Coast of North Carolina. 40. Simon B. Buckner, Kentucky, Kentucky. 41. Leroy Pope Walker, Alabama, Alabama. 42. Albert G. Blanchard, Louisiana, Norfolk. 43. Gabriel J. Rains, North Carolina, Yorktown. 44. J. E. B. Stuart, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 45. Lafayette McLaws, Georgia, Yorktown. 46. Thomas F. Drayton, South Carolina, Coast of South Carolina. 47. Thomas C. Hindman, Arkansas, Kentucky. 48. Adley H. Gladden, Louisiana, Pensacola. 49. John Porter McCown, Tennessee, Kentucky. 50. Lloyd Tilghman, Kentucky, Kentucky. 51. Nathan G. Evans, South Carolina, Coast of South Carolina. 52. Cadmus M. Wilcox, Tennessee, Army of Potomac. 53. Those having a * affixed are dead, or have resigned since the commencement of the war. Philip St. George Cocke, Virginia, died in Virginia. 54. R. F. Rhodes, Alabama, Army of Potomac. 55. Richard Taylor, Louisiana, army of Potomac. 56. Louis T. Wigfall, Texas, Army of Potomac. 57. James