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re about an hour, and then passed on to Major-General Meade's headquarters, my intention being to pass the night with Colonel Rivers, of the Massachusetts Eleventh. Our route lay for miles through the camps of the Second and Fifth Army Corps, Hancocthe Massachusetts Eleventh, and, after a long search, we found it about seven o'clock in the evening. I stopped with Colonel Rivers in his tent that night. Nov. 2.—After breakfast, called with Colonel Rivers upon Brigadier-General McAllister, whoColonel Rivers upon Brigadier-General McAllister, whose headquarters were near by, and had a pleasant conversation with him for half an hour; here we were within a mile and a half of Petersburg. Shelling and picket-firing had been going on all night. Within a quarter of a mile of the quarters, a new, the church-steeples of Petersburg. The rebel lines and pickets were also in sight. After giving instructions to Colonel Rivers about the rolls, and leaving blanks on which to make them out, I took my leave, and proceeded with my colored orderly