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ed that the Government will. after a while, open its eyes to his rare qualifications for a high commander. A soldier of twenty-five years' experience, and with no superior as an administrative officer, it is an outrage — nay, it is a pitiful meanness — to send him into battle with a little battalion, simply because he has too much noble pride to seek promotion by the means that alone succeed nowadays. I would speak of others, but my letter is already too long. Perhaps I may write again. Wapello. Cincinnati commercial account. battle-field of Stone River, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 3, 1863. A week of horrors, a week of carnage, a week of tremendous conflict — and battle still raging! At this moment there is angry rattle of musketry and deep, sullen roar of cannon, echoing in the forest within Minie range of our marquee. My God, when will it end! A thousand gallant dead slumber in their bloody graves; four thousand wounded and mangled patriots are moaning on this sanguinar<