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� we might have selected our own position.

     Many think our cause 

is lost. But I am still hopeful. Two of the large family of civilians from Washington to attend to the sick are stopping with us. One of them I recognized as Mr. French former editor of Biddeford Journal. They have just gone out with flag of truce to the battle field to see to wounded and dead.

       Mr. Cornwell of the Register's 

Office at Treasury Department is here with us and is making himself generally useful in obtaining stuff from the sanitary commission.

      The day is most beautiful. 

Not a gun fired yet. I think