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From the Southwest.[from our army Correspondent.] Corinth, Miss., May 24, 1862.
Life in the Army of the Mississippi is like the boys' game of "see-saw." How you go up to the seventh heaven of expectation on the end of some imaginary contingency, and now you come down to mother earth, with some thumping disappointment.
Such has been the experience of the last forty-eight hours. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, everybody talked "fight," from the Generals down to camp cooks.
Everything indicated fight from the individual preparing his five days rations to the mass already in motion, and a prophet might have staked his reputation upon the probability.
Yet, here we are at the end of the week-nobody hurt!
Halleck quietly in his nest, we in our quarters, the rain coming drearily down, mud four inches deep, roads impassable, and a battle, to all appearance, as remote as ever.
The fact is, Halleck is disincline to fight.
Every offer of battle we have made — and they have n