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ty days more and we may expect the campaign to begin. McClellan moved in 1862 as soon as March opened; whilst Hooker delayed until April only because a wide river intervened between him and us. There is, let me say again, no time for delay. Mosby, the gallant guerilla chief, is constantly disturbing and harassing the enemy. Within the last week he has sent in three lots of prisoners, numbering some seventy-five, and has captured over one hundred horses and mules, besides the arms and equipments of the men taken. He is doing us valuable service. A gentleman told me in Fauquier, last fall, as the army moved to Bristow, that Mosby was equal to a force of fifteen thousand men as against the enemy; for, said he, it requires that force to guard the railroad, protect the bridges, and do patrol duty. Courts-martial are now in session all over the army, and a large amount of business is being disposed of. The desertions are much less frequent since the institution of the permane