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your race. You will go up right away to the Lord Jesus, and you will form dress-parade in Paradise with your officers and brothers who fall with you, just as though you were in the old camp. The effect was inspiriting to the men, and they fought like tigers. In the afternoon, I attended the dress-parade of Colonel McLaughlin's brigade, in which there are the remains of several of our regiments. I also, at the request of the Colonel, reviewed the brigade, after which we called upon General Wilcox, division commander, who has several Massachusetts officers on his staff. Rode to the Colonel's headquarters. After supper, a large number of our Massachusetts officers came in and spent the evening. I gave them instructions about making out their rolls, and promised to visit their camps the next day, and bring blank rolls with me. At ten o'clock, Colonel Russell and I rode to our quarters, and soon after retired. I must not omit to mention, that Captain Clarke, of the Twenty-ninth R