This was a delicious day. We were trying our Enfields again this morning at about nine hundred yards. The boys were delighted that they could fire so effectively at such a distance. We can hardly blame reporters that they give such different accounts of things, for no two seem hardly seem to see alike. We were today discussing whether Lt. Selden, who lay dead at the embrasure in the battery we took, had boots on. 3 or so asserted that he had top boots -- others that he wore shoes. We even located him at different places in the battery. We are inclined to think that the story of Banks' defeat is a canard. Sgt was on shore and says the report had been flying around there several days -- that they had papers to the 27th which said nothing about it. It is said that the Spaulding is to be in soon, and that we are not to go until it comes. We think that the ships are very nearly all embarked, on board the different vessels. I hope the Spaulding will bring us a mail. I would like to hear some thing about what has happened since the taking of Savannah and Nashville. This is Lt Beaver's Birthday entering his twenty second year.
