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nds, whose merry laugh you have answered around their camp fires, may be weltering in their blood on these strange hillsides, or gone forever to their long home. One hour more, and thousands will become widows and orphans, and weary heart cries will ascend to Heaven over the new sacrifice which this cruel struggle demands, while brave men, borne to the rear, will linger for a time under the knife and saw of the surgeons, and then, perhaps, return to their homes gained for life. Night, July 20.--A battle, or rather an engagement, has taken place, and the fitful flashes of musketry along the lines denote that it has ended without substantial results. I am too weary to enter much into details, and probably it would not be prudent to do so--first, because of the incompleteness of the affair, and secondly, the liability of capture while this letter is en route to Macon, it being feared that the enemy will strike our only remaining line of communication to-night. The following, there