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than three hundred of them wanted to go home with the enemy in our front, The Troup Artillery, to a man, said they would stay. Dam No. 2, April 19.—The enemy has kept up a constant fire for six days along our lines, and several of my men have been killed. General Johnston is very taciturn, and keeps his counsel to himself, so I do not know whether I may be ordered to cross or to commence a retreat. April 28.—The colonel who led the assault on us the 16th is named Lord, the son of Professor Lord, of Dartmouth College, who has written so much in favor of slavery. These people are incomprehensible to me. April 30.—The reorganization of the regiments under the conscription act is working better than we feared, but the men have defeated almost every good officer, and elected privates and corporals to their places. If McClellan opens by land and water on Yorktown that place is obliged to fall. But don't tell this as coming from me. May 1.—Poor Frank Cone was killed in th