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and thier crockings amount to no more than the

Wind, As for peace there can be no peace. the

day has past for the thoughts of peace, nothing but

compleet subjugation, if it takes forty years to

accomplish it. And this is the true feeling of

seven eights of the army. But the prospect

never looked better for our side and never

so dark for thiers. They think Hooker made

 a great blunder do they! Who think so, What

chance, or what reason have they to know, however all

thier croakings and groanings wont help them, and

all I ask is for these same croakers and fault finders

to come out here, then they may have a better chance

to judge of Jo Hooker's merrits then they possess now.

As regardes our not being discharged when the

regt. is thats all 'in my Eye', that is I speak of

the recruits that inlisted before the 15th of August

under an especial order from the War depar-

tment and joined the old three years Regts

no doupt the miserable hounds that croak

and blow about this army, and its Generals, are

in hopes we'll stop. But they have got to come

and I hope to Heaven they'll hurry Men up, for