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unsteadiness of our marches up the Peninsula, and the short distance usually gained in a day, were owing to the badness of the roads- which were more wretched than any description can set forth- and to the positions of our corps a considerable distance towards the rear of the column- Thursday ( 29th ) we moved two miles further and remained till Saturday morning ( 31st ) when we changed camp to within a mile and a half of Seven Pines, when the opening of the battle at 2 P. M. found us.-