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A Texan at the siege of Lexington.

--A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Lexington in regard to the siege, says:

‘ I saw one case that shows the Confederate style of fighting. An old Texan, dressed in buckskin and armed with a long rifle, used to go up to the works every morning, about seven o'clock, carrying his dinner in a tin pail. Taking a good position, he banged away at the Federals till noon; then an hour, ate his dinner, till six P. M., when he returned home to supper, and a siege. The next day, a little before seven, saw him dinner and in hand, ing up about to begin again, days weeks — and in this

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