Dear Mary,-

We are on the Heights yet but out scouting every day. The snow has all gone and left the woods and ground very wet and the roads very muddy. The road runs through our Camp. The night of the 7th John Snyder was on duty as picket on this road and Colonel McDougall rode out to inspect the picket line and got outside the line on the road. He was approaching John's post when John challenged him with, "Halt, who comes there?" He replied, "Colonel McDougall." John said, "Dismount and advance and give the countersign." The mud was knee deep and the Colonel did not like to get into the mud but tried to get

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contents Camp on London Heights, Va., November 8th, 1862. Dear Mary,- We are on the Heights yet but out scouting every day. The snow has all gone and left the woods and ground very wet and the roads very muddy. The road runs through our Camp. The night of the 7th John Snyder was on duty as picket on this road and Colonel McDougall rode out to inspect the picket line and got outside the line on the road. He was approaching John's post when John challenged him with, "Halt, who comes there?" He replied, "Colonel McDougall." John said, "Dismount and advance and give the countersign." The mud was knee deep and the Colonel did not like to get into the mud but tried to get