Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
Edgefield, Sun., Jan. 31, 1864.—I received between 50 and 60 new recruits from Wisconsin yesterday, and expect a good many more. The regiment will probably fill up. Three hundred and forty-eight of my men have re-enlisted and have been mustered as veterans, and the number will probably increase to 400. I have just forwarded an application for the regiment to be furloughed home. It will be about two weeks before we hear from it. If the application is granted, and I expect that it will be, we shall probably get off between the 15th and 20th of February. This veteran movement is a grand thing, and the most discouraging to the rebels of anything that has transpired during the war. I feel it my duty to encourage it by all proper means.
