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g, but the latter cannot be very far off. If we go to Newbern we cannot go for a fortnight or more; if we go with Banks we may be ordered to New York, at least, any day. It is snowing hard again and the men take it rather hard, yet they are more good-natured than one would expect, on the whole. All my company have bought new blue overcoats in place of. the shoddies — some for cash, some for credit. On Tuesday the lady friends of the company give us a dinner at City Hall. Camp Wool, November 12 We have marching orders (which I have seen) to go to Newbern by the return steamers. Only two regiments are to go, and we shall have a steamer to ourselves, which will be far more comfortable. They finally sailed on the 10th and will be ready to sail again in ten days or a fortnight from that time. I suppose you will prefer the Newbern destination. All these plans were changed by General Saxton's proposal that Captain Higginson should take command of a South Carolina regiment o