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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
Carolina Zouaves will be on shortly, when the infantry portion of the Legion will consist of nine corps, the cavalry four, while the artillery has increased to upwards of 175 members. Two nights since, when we were all just wrapped in the "airy folds of tired Nature's sweet restorer," the captains of companies passed round, and putting their heads into every tent, told us to look to our guns, and be ready to form and march at a moment's notice — a deserter, or spy, having come in to Gen. Whiting, stating that the enemy would that night land and attack us; but having good faith in our pickets, and very little in the courage of the Lincolnites, we simply groaned, and, turning over, were soon asleep again. Last evening a lady, accompanied by a gentlemen, finely dressed and handsomely mounted, rode into our lines, and directly to headquarters, attracting, of course, a great deal of attention from our gallant youths, who were amazed at the appearance of a lady away down among the