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nse sufferings. With emphasis he answered, Oh, they are nothing to the sufferings which Jesus bore for me,! In a few days he too was in the bosom of his Father. On Sunday, July 21, 1861, was fought the first battle of Manassas. As the first gun was fired, says the same writer, a few minutes after 7 A. M., I mounted my horse and hastened from the Junction to our regiment, still stationed at Blackburn's Ford. On my way I met several regiments, some of them Mississippians, moving from that Ford to some other part of the line of action. I hailed them as they passed: Virginia's salutation to her sister Mississippi! Let each State of the Southern Confederacy cover herself with glory, and pour a common glory on the cause of the united South to-day. God bless you, friends. Commit your souls and the righteous cause you uphold to him. Rev. Dr. Bocock was with me, and addressed them in a similar strain. I cannot tell much of this day's work. The hard fighting was on our left, and we