knew any thing of it. When we had double his number & could have surrounded him & taken his entire force, O what perfidy, & how such a commanding Officer's soul must be perjured before God & his Country;  We might have won quite a victory, & thus have done some service to our Country, Then if I had have been one of the survivors my little almost blank book would have been brought into requisition.  But I cannot remember such scenes of disgrace with pleasure.  Now I do not know whether I have written a plain enough style of diction to be fairly understood or not I hope that the war will soon end & then I can go home & tell you all about it  Yesterday the Telegraph told us here that our Gunboats were throwing shells into Vicksburg, & that we were getting in their rear by the canal in the Yazoo R  I think the place will be taken by siege  We may yet be engaged in it.  I think not   