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or two since to the south side of the river at Rappahannock Ford. Their reserve, or main force, of cavalry are reported to be concentrated around Kelly's Ford. A body of cavalry advanced in the direction and within one and a half miles of Culpeper C. H., but soon fell back on the appearance of a confronting arty of ours. The cavalry of both armies remain in line of battle from day to-day, with nothing to interrupt the monotony save an occasional shot of the pickets at each other. Gen. Stuart is commanding on our side, and his coolness, vigilance, and general management since the appearance of the enemy in his front, have elicited general satisfaction. Diverse opinions prevail as to Meade's probable intentions, although no movement of his has yet been made which furnishes a key to his plans — if he has yet adopted any. Some are of opinion that he will attempt what both his predecessors failed to accomplish at Fredericksburg; while others think he will cooperate in the "on
s to the fear of injuring him by promotion. He does not know that Mosby refused a commission urged upon him to accept for at least eighteen months. He has letters from Gen. Johnston (while in command at Manassas) to the Secretary of War, from Gen. Stuart as well as Gen. Lee to the President, for great services rendered, all of which he has, in his modesty, declined to deliver, preferring, in his loyalty, to work on in his hazardous, adventurous way against the Yankees, in whose lines he has lived and moved since the war, in which he entered as a private, receiving no pay. And not until lately has he accepted a commission, suggested by Gen. Stuart, (his friend, upon whose staff he served as a volunteer scout,) arguing that he could do more service in his way by a separate and larger command, which had not been over twenty-five or thirty in his various and hundred raids. It is with due respect and great love of his character I make these remarks to you about Mosby, whom I have kn