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From the Potomac.
the Hurricane — Appeal to the young men of the country — our soldiers Aroused by reverses — the Burnside fleet, &c.
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Company “"A,"” 2d N. C. S. T., Camp Potomac, Va., Feb. 24th, 1862.
I presume it is needless for me to say that we have been blessed with a superabundance of rain, as I see by the papers that it has been the case throughout the whole country.
I think to-day is the first in several weeks that I have been able to see a clear sky, and what to-day lacks in the usual quantity of clouds and rain, it fully makes up in wind; and as I sit here by my solitary fire, writing you this letter.
I can hear it whistling around the corners of my log cabin in a manner that causes a feeling of sadness for the poor fellows who are standing "picket" to-night on the bleak shores of the Potomac.
God grant that this wind, which so fiercely shrieks and howls among these old hills, may scatter and destroy the a