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              <text>No. 14 &lt;br /&gt;Con. Hdqrs. Co. "H" 2d Conn. H. Artillery &lt;br /&gt;2d Brigade 1t Division 6h Army Corps &lt;br /&gt;"Camp Russell", Army of the Shenandoah &lt;br /&gt;Friday, November 23rd AD. 1864 eve'g. &lt;br /&gt;Dr. Friends at Home &lt;br /&gt;It has been a lovely day &lt;br /&gt;clear, warm Indian Summery, a pleasing change after &lt;br /&gt;Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, which were rigorous. &lt;br /&gt;We are in camp here where I first joined the boys &lt;br /&gt;a half mile from Corps Hdqrs, a mile from Dept. Hdqrs &lt;br /&gt;and 1 1/2 miles from Kernestown which is 3 miles from&lt;br /&gt;Winchester, Va. The boys have put up comfortable &lt;br /&gt;quarters, generally, though not what would naturally &lt;br /&gt;be called "rustic qrs" as few have stockades, but &lt;br /&gt;most have good fireplaces and chimnees and though &lt;br /&gt;wood is not convenient, they manage to pick up enough to keep from suffering with cold. We go a mile &lt;br /&gt;for wood and 1/2 mile for water, but both are good when&lt;br /&gt;reached, so if it keeps us busy to supply fire and food &lt;br /&gt;we are healthy and enjoy the life very well indeed &lt;br /&gt;though there is the usual amount of grumbling. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 2] &lt;br /&gt;Nothing out of the usual line to day. An early &lt;br /&gt;rise, breakfast of dyspeptic griddle(or spider) &lt;br /&gt;cakes and Gov't. beef, guard mount at 9 o'c. Co drill &lt;br /&gt;from 9.30' to 11 o'c. I drilling Co "H" + "K" consolidated &lt;br /&gt;going through 1st Vol. Casey and McClellan's Bayonet &lt;br /&gt;Exercise mostly, diffuse if not very profitable. An &lt;br /&gt;excellent dinner of chicken pot pie. Thanksgiving remnant &lt;br /&gt;Battn drill from 1.30' to 3.30' p.m. the 2d being divided &lt;br /&gt;into 6 Cos with 3 line officers out, 2 of which rank &lt;br /&gt;me, so I get 3d Co (Color Co.) and am chief of Div'n &lt;br /&gt;for First line, but I manage to get along without any &lt;br /&gt;bad errors all through the drill, which like mine &lt;br /&gt;of the morning, is quite diffuse, going over Vol. 1, 2, + 3 &lt;br /&gt;of Casey's Tactics regardless of morder or arrangement. &lt;br /&gt;A brigade dress parade up near Gen. Wright's Hdgrs &lt;br /&gt;at 4.30 closes the active exercises of the day, a &lt;br /&gt;light supper of remains of dinner, this letter writing &lt;br /&gt;and the 8.30 roll call being inconsiderable efforts. &lt;br /&gt;For Aunt Mary Wedge's benefit I would say that &lt;br /&gt;Frank Wedge is a Sergt. in Co. K an honest, respectable &lt;br /&gt;quiet and I have no doubt a "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pious&lt;/span&gt;" young man. &lt;br /&gt;He acted as right guidepost of the line this morning's drill. &lt;br /&gt;He is quite deaf but otherwise an excellent soldier. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 3] &lt;br /&gt;Did you hear of our review the 21st inst? I did, &lt;br /&gt;and what is more to the point, saw it + participated &lt;br /&gt;in it, to the extent of my humble ability. &lt;br /&gt;It had been cloudy all day the morn'g and it began to&lt;br /&gt;rain as we fell in at 12 n, so we had a muddy&lt;br /&gt;little march up the pike to Gen. Sheridan's Hdqrs, nearly&lt;br /&gt;where we formed in column by regtl division, our brigade&lt;br /&gt;the 2d of the 1st Divn bringing us well to the right of&lt;br /&gt;the line. Our regt is the 1st or right of the 2d brigade.&lt;br /&gt;We formed the Corps line promptly, and myst have &lt;br /&gt;waited nearly an hour bin the cold dip, after forming&lt;br /&gt;for 2 o'c (the reviewing hour) to arrive. Gen. Sheridan&lt;br /&gt;in full dress and with a large staff and train rode&lt;br /&gt;up punctual to the minute, and the review commenced.&lt;br /&gt;He rode a splendid black horse, and rode him excellently&lt;br /&gt;well. Rode in front of each Brigde Comdr and saluted&lt;br /&gt;them down the brigade line. So on through the 3 Divisions&lt;br /&gt;of the infantry part of the Corps, these then the batteries of&lt;br /&gt;of artillery, posted in rear of the infantry line. It was&lt;br /&gt;a little differently conducted review, from what I had &lt;br /&gt;ever seen, for Gen. Phil dont go mto Washington for his&lt;br /&gt;Method of Review, but has Gen. Torbert get up one to suit&lt;br /&gt;the circumstances and the "Army of the Shenandoah."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 4]&lt;br /&gt;After he (the Gen.) had done his part, the battn&lt;br /&gt;of the hin changed direction by the left flank, by&lt;br /&gt;head of column took wheeling distance, and so&lt;br /&gt;marched in series, and home in the rain I read&lt;br /&gt;Gen. Sheridan is a little man physically, but a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whale&lt;/span&gt; militarily. All the boys nearly worship&lt;br /&gt;him, and dont growl at his reviews at all.&lt;br /&gt;I should have known him readily from his&lt;br /&gt;pictures I had seen in the papers. A queer&lt;br /&gt;plain face, round kind of head with striaght &lt;br /&gt;hair and full beard and mustache. There&lt;br /&gt; is a very good picture of him in the "annals&lt;br /&gt;of the Army of the Cumberland". There is&lt;br /&gt;a curious look on his face, half comical, half &lt;br /&gt;sad, all bright and sharp, different from anything&lt;br /&gt;I ever saw in any other dace. A man told me&lt;br /&gt;the Gen. almost cried when he rode up to the Fight&lt;br /&gt;of Oct. 19th another told me he almost laughed.&lt;br /&gt;I think likely from what I saw of his face that&lt;br /&gt;probably it did not look very differently from what&lt;br /&gt;it usually does, the difference being in the 2&lt;br /&gt;mens eyes more than any thing else. Altogether&lt;br /&gt;he is not a common looking man. Of his achieve&lt;br /&gt;you know as much as I. They speak for dimensions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 5]&lt;br /&gt;I am not certain that you will get a very vivid idea&lt;br /&gt;of the Army of the Shenandoah from my rough and&lt;br /&gt;imperfect sketch, but it may assist you just a little.&lt;br /&gt;You will notive that the 6th Corps has the post of honor&lt;br /&gt;(right wing) and half of the danger + work (at least)&lt;br /&gt;To hear the 6th Corps boys talk one would reasonably&lt;br /&gt;suppose njo other corps could fight at all. They say&lt;br /&gt;the 8th + 9th broke + ran at Winchester as well as at&lt;br /&gt;Cedar Creek and nothing "but &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;our brigade&lt;/span&gt; of the 6th&lt;br /&gt;stood to a man" and saved the day. The 2d C.A.&lt;br /&gt;can brag more, [unclear] more and fight harder than any &lt;br /&gt;other military organization in the Vol. Army if&lt;br /&gt;the boys words are to be credited at all.&lt;br /&gt;Our brigade (famous Upton's) is a small squad now.&lt;br /&gt;Does not turn out more than 1000 rifles at the most&lt;br /&gt;and usually not upon an inspection or mparade. There&lt;br /&gt;are besides the 2d C.A. which is the right battn, the 95th&lt;br /&gt;P.I. 121st + 65th N.Y.I, all good regts. and true. &lt;br /&gt;Col. Hubbard our regl Cmdr is more beloved by the&lt;br /&gt;boys than ever Col. Kellogg was, which is saying much. &lt;br /&gt;Of. Col. McKenzie I need say nothing except that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 6]&lt;br /&gt;he is about as popular a brigade cmdr as he&lt;br /&gt;has been regtl Cmdr. Others can detail his saying&lt;br /&gt;and doings better than I as he was one of [unclear]&lt;br /&gt;Gen. Wheaton Div. Cmdr is a gentleman and very&lt;br /&gt;fastidious in style + dress, appearing in the finest&lt;br /&gt;and brightest attire. Gen. Wright comes out in his&lt;br /&gt;very plainest dress possible, enlisted man over&lt;br /&gt;coat, cavalry boots and slouch hat, but both Gens&lt;br /&gt;ride very finest horses - Gen. Wright's a black, Gen.&lt;br /&gt;Wheaton's a chestnut, both beauties, but not &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;grand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;like Gen. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sheridan's&lt;/span&gt; black that took him from &lt;br /&gt;Winchester to Cedar Creek that 19th of Oct. and took&lt;br /&gt;him all through the afternoon battle.&lt;br /&gt;Gen. Upton is said to be at Brigde Hdqrs. He &lt;br /&gt;is brevet Maj. Gen. I hear, and goes to Sherman's&lt;br /&gt;Army from here. Sorry to lose him, glad to &lt;br /&gt;have him rise. Reverse for "3 fingered slack".&lt;br /&gt;There! I have gossiped enough of my betters&lt;br /&gt;but I have also reached the bottom of the&lt;br /&gt;last page, so I cannot change the subject&lt;br /&gt;not having room to turn around.&lt;br /&gt;With much love therefore I bid you all&lt;br /&gt;a very good day.&lt;br /&gt;Homer S. Curtis&lt;br /&gt;Lieut. 2nd C.V.A. Comdg Co "H"</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Relay House, 9 miles S. of Balt.&lt;br /&gt;Sat. noon Nov. 5th 1864&lt;br /&gt;Dr Ma + girls&lt;br /&gt;I am so far on my way to the&lt;br /&gt;regt - at last - I did not expect such delay, and in&lt;br /&gt;such out of the way places too, in going to the front,&lt;br /&gt;but I am learning patience if nothing else from the&lt;br /&gt;experiences of the past week. I recapitulate - &lt;br /&gt;1st delay in getting transportation in Annapolis, and&lt;br /&gt;consequent delay in starting from there. 2nd Wrong &lt;br /&gt;transportation for you will perceive ere this&lt;br /&gt;that I ought not to have gone to Washington at all,&lt;br /&gt;but I have been sent by the N. route in the first place&lt;br /&gt;I was sent to Wn which caused 3d delays without&lt;br /&gt;number, in getting transportation, tickets and seat &lt;br /&gt;on a train, part of which is anticipatory, as I&lt;br /&gt;left myself at the "Home" in Wn - in my last -&lt;br /&gt;I wrote no. 7 from this "Home" and spoke confidently&lt;br /&gt;of going up to Martinsburg that (Thurs.) evening,&lt;br /&gt;too confidently as it turned out. For though I went &lt;br /&gt;early to the depot, and staid late, I could not get&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 2]&lt;br /&gt;even a ticket that evening, so after vainly trying to&lt;br /&gt;get away until near 10 o'c. p.m. and when the last&lt;br /&gt;train had gone, I took my luggage up to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and myself to Springmans Columbian Hotel (euphonious &lt;br /&gt;appellation for a small and rather neat little house&lt;br /&gt;near the Capitol on the Av.) where I found a decent&lt;br /&gt;bed which I occupied until morning, + slept well.&lt;br /&gt;I tried again in the morning to get off but saw it was&lt;br /&gt;no use - depot cars - street even more jammed with&lt;br /&gt;soldiers going home to vote, so as I was bound&lt;br /&gt;as it were - I concluded to enjoy it the best I could&lt;br /&gt;happy that it was no worse, so I went up to the&lt;br /&gt;San'y Com.n  &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Home&lt;/span&gt; and wrote a letter and my diary,&lt;br /&gt;then went to the Capitol and roamed over it an hour&lt;br /&gt;and from there I took car for Smithsonian Institute&lt;br /&gt;where I spent the day. Found some new curiosities&lt;br /&gt;in the museum and a new picture + statuary room&lt;br /&gt;and library opened since I visited it last.&lt;br /&gt;I spent several hours very leisurely and also very&lt;br /&gt;pleasantly in the pretty library with its stained glass&lt;br /&gt;windows and good collection of current literature.&lt;br /&gt;Read some of Abbott's Napoleon whitewash, battles of &lt;br /&gt;Wagram and the island in the Rhine, also of the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 3]&lt;br /&gt;divorce, which, like every other one I have known&lt;br /&gt;of seemed scandalous, villainous, altogether bad.&lt;br /&gt;Then I read some stray chapters of Bleak House&lt;br /&gt;which I found was quite new and interesting &lt;br /&gt;to me. I also read some in my little Bible that&lt;br /&gt;I commenced reading by course in Annapolis.&lt;br /&gt;How very interesting, by the way is Bible history,&lt;br /&gt;so clear and terse. I am more and more &lt;br /&gt;delighted with it the more I read it. I never&lt;br /&gt;fail to find new beauties in every chapter I&lt;br /&gt;read and every time I read. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Great&lt;/span&gt; book indeed.&lt;br /&gt;At last it came to be time to close the library&lt;br /&gt;so I stopped reading and went out. Got a late&lt;br /&gt;dinner at 8 o'c and went over for a grand effort&lt;br /&gt;to get away from Wn by the 8.30 train. I got &lt;br /&gt;my ticket for Martinsburg without much trouble&lt;br /&gt;and felt much encouraged. But it was no use&lt;br /&gt;no use. I couldn't get away. Waited and tried&lt;br /&gt;patiently until 10 o'c then retired in good order &lt;br /&gt;to my sheer Springmans where I spent another&lt;br /&gt;night, and this brings me up to this morning.&lt;br /&gt;Got up in good season and went over to the depot &lt;br /&gt;not confident now but dogged and obstinate, with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 4]&lt;br /&gt;my mind made up to try as hard as ever, but&lt;br /&gt;expecting to fail this day, as I had done&lt;br /&gt;before. Got down in time for the train, but it&lt;br /&gt;was full up, not a shadow of a chance on it,&lt;br /&gt;so I watched it glide away without any very&lt;br /&gt;decided emotions on the subject, but when I&lt;br /&gt;saw the next trains back in to the depot I made &lt;br /&gt;a flank movement by the right, and took it easy&lt;br /&gt;got the first seat in one of the best cars and&lt;br /&gt;at the important moment, when I usually &lt;br /&gt;retired quite downcast, I rode away triumphant&lt;br /&gt;I was not sorry to leave the shabby suburbs of &lt;br /&gt;Washington, and hoping to see them neatly&lt;br /&gt;built up and the Capitol completed when I&lt;br /&gt;came back, I left the City of Magnificent&lt;br /&gt;Distances, and at a pleasant speed came up&lt;br /&gt;to this place, a place of no particular size or&lt;br /&gt;importance, where I have to wait until 10 o'c&lt;br /&gt;this evening before I make another advance&lt;br /&gt;which will be in the direction of Harper's Ferry&lt;br /&gt;If nothing unfavorable occurs, I hope to be in&lt;br /&gt;Martinsburg to morrow morning. Farther than&lt;br /&gt;that I have little or no idea of time or space&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 5]&lt;br /&gt;no. 8 con.&lt;br /&gt;that intervenes between my goal and I.&lt;br /&gt;If I am successful in the prosecution of my&lt;br /&gt;journey, I will advise you of all the stages&lt;br /&gt;of its progress, but if you please I will not &lt;br /&gt;anticipate any more, but wait until each is&lt;br /&gt;concluded before I describe it.&lt;br /&gt;Do you not remember seeing in &lt;br /&gt;our illustrated &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;trip on the Balt. + Ohio. R.R.&lt;/span&gt; in&lt;br /&gt;Harper's magazine 4 or 5 years since a very&lt;br /&gt;pretty cut of the Relay House? I remember it &lt;br /&gt;well and did the first time I was over the&lt;br /&gt;road, when the 19th C.V. came through 2 years&lt;br /&gt;ago, and I recall my disappointment when I&lt;br /&gt;first saw it. The picture of the building &lt;br /&gt;was correct so far as architectural outline is&lt;br /&gt;concerned, but it represented it as a neat &lt;br /&gt;pleasant place (at least it seemed to me) +&lt;br /&gt;I think, surrounded with shrubbery. All fancy!&lt;br /&gt;there is not a pleasant thing about it, (except&lt;br /&gt;temporarily to me, because it is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not Washington&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;but on the contrary it is a mean, shabby, dirty&lt;br /&gt;depot on this dirty coal hauling, coal burning,&lt;br /&gt;coal built R.R. there is a little &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;tavern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 6]&lt;br /&gt;I will not honor it by the title hotel, and in&lt;br /&gt;that tavern there is a room - bare, hard&lt;br /&gt;coarse - but warm - and in that room, on an&lt;br /&gt;old antique, awkward, (+ unique so far as I know)&lt;br /&gt;musical instrument with 7 wooden legs, I&lt;br /&gt;am inditing this letter. It is the sitting &lt;br /&gt;room of the "Relay House", if you can ever stop&lt;br /&gt;here by any mischance, peep in and see&lt;br /&gt;the room and its furniture and pictures&lt;br /&gt;which besides the old instrument are as follows&lt;br /&gt;vix - portraits of Gen. Washington + the "Maltby&lt;br /&gt;House" Baltimore, each good in its ways. A&lt;br /&gt;very good map of Maryland, "My Maryland"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Free Maryland&lt;/span&gt;, + a chest of the Ill. Central R.R.&lt;br /&gt;3 or 4 chairs, a many legged couch and a &lt;br /&gt;remarkable piece of furniture it has been my&lt;br /&gt;lot to witness in use, half sofa, part settee&lt;br /&gt;part &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;tete a tete&lt;/span&gt; and the rest casters, all&lt;br /&gt;covered with red velvet. I wonder if it is&lt;br /&gt;not a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;padein&lt;/span&gt; or a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;chefdover&lt;/span&gt; or the like?&lt;br /&gt;A queer place, but rather pleasant this chilly&lt;br /&gt;rain, gusty day. I love it a little already&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 7] &lt;br /&gt;No 8. con.&lt;br /&gt;I sent a confused lot of papers&lt;br /&gt;from Annapolis this evening before I left.&lt;br /&gt;The day before, I sent a letter without any no. on&lt;br /&gt;the corner of the envelope - directed to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mother&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and enclosing a $100.00 Treasury note, that&lt;br /&gt;evening I enclosed all my old letters in No 6&lt;br /&gt;envelope with a sheet to Fannie, but put it in&lt;br /&gt;the express bundle with the diary finally, and so&lt;br /&gt;wrote a supplementary &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no. 6, without the number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;however, and directed to Lucy and mailed.&lt;br /&gt;Have you received all these precious packets?&lt;br /&gt;If so, you will need this key to show their proper&lt;br /&gt;order, and if not you will wish to know the&lt;br /&gt;extent of your loss. In my hurry I forgot&lt;br /&gt;to correct my Letter list in the diary, so it&lt;br /&gt;must remain an unfinished work unless you&lt;br /&gt;will kindly consent to complete it for me.&lt;br /&gt;Lou will probably wonder why I was so diffuse&lt;br /&gt;in my favors. In explanation I would say&lt;br /&gt;that I took tim [sic] by the forelock and did&lt;br /&gt;up my transient writing there in Annapolis&lt;br /&gt;where I had leisure and the other facilities.&lt;br /&gt;Several of the letters were the first + last of their&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 8]&lt;br /&gt;respective series eg. those to Kellogg, Gen. Graham&lt;br /&gt;Flora S. +c. +c. Something had to be said&lt;br /&gt;in each case but one shell could contain all.&lt;br /&gt;I think, so far, you cannot complain that I had&lt;br /&gt;neglected you to write to aliens. For I have&lt;br /&gt;written more &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sheets&lt;/span&gt; than to all the rest,&lt;br /&gt;in fact I have no correspondence but you,&lt;br /&gt;nor do I desire any more. I asked Flora to&lt;br /&gt;write if she could find time, often writing to&lt;br /&gt;her father, brothers + female friends and as&lt;br /&gt;Young America puts it, I got the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;refusal&lt;/span&gt; of her,&lt;br /&gt;which being interpreted is she said that she&lt;br /&gt;couldn't, and as she is the only one that I &lt;br /&gt;really asked, I haven't much in that line to&lt;br /&gt;show for my 40 days leave. Flora is a good&lt;br /&gt;deal of a a woman. I cannot describe her as&lt;br /&gt;I saw her, but she was not the "Riss" of old&lt;br /&gt;by any means, though still retaining many&lt;br /&gt;of her ways, "little loving ways" I think is the&lt;br /&gt;expression I heard applied to something in&lt;br /&gt;the same way. I was very much surprised &lt;br /&gt;to find her so much matured, her words&lt;br /&gt;and I judge from them, her thoughts + ideas&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 9]&lt;br /&gt;are much in advance of those of the girls&lt;br /&gt;of her age that I have met, and still&lt;br /&gt;she is the dame retiring + modest little one&lt;br /&gt;she always has been since I have known her.&lt;br /&gt;When she is quite in earnest she talks almost&lt;br /&gt;if not quite brilliantly, and it was on the strength&lt;br /&gt;of some of her best talking that I asked her to&lt;br /&gt;write, but she saw threw what I saw the next&lt;br /&gt;week, that it wasn't best. When I fairly saw &lt;br /&gt;it in that light, I wrote half &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;or more&lt;/span&gt; apologetically&lt;br /&gt;and that is the sum and substance of that cor-&lt;br /&gt;respondence. I wrote to Geo K. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; apologetically,&lt;br /&gt;as I rather infamously neglected to even call&lt;br /&gt;on him, although he was very kind + attentive&lt;br /&gt;to me, for which he deserved my thanks, and&lt;br /&gt;having failed to give them verbally I wrote&lt;br /&gt;them, which explains &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; part of my correspdce&lt;br /&gt;Most of the other &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;foreign&lt;/span&gt; letters were mere&lt;br /&gt;business notes, though that would not include &lt;br /&gt;0the one to Eunice which if I do not forget, &lt;br /&gt;was rather of the hilarious order. She and&lt;br /&gt;Seymour + Datie deserved theirs for old&lt;br /&gt;acquaintance sake if for nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 10]&lt;br /&gt;After a long period of sour, damp, rain weather&lt;br /&gt;it has first now (2 o'c p.m.) cleared off beautifully&lt;br /&gt;bright and breezy, and I hope it will remain&lt;br /&gt;pleasant tomorrow, for I shall probably have &lt;br /&gt;to spend the coming Sunday among entire&lt;br /&gt;strangers, and I shall feel happier to know&lt;br /&gt;that Providence is smiling than to see his&lt;br /&gt;frown on the sky, reflected by earth and&lt;br /&gt;water, and I alone, among those that are&lt;br /&gt;neither near + dear to me except as fellow &lt;br /&gt;mortals, which after all is but a weak tie&lt;br /&gt;unless reinforced by acquaintance.&lt;br /&gt;I hoped to have spent tomorrow with&lt;br /&gt;our boys, but it was otherwise arranged.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if I shall find Homer or Austin&lt;br /&gt;or Minor or John at all. I fear they are&lt;br /&gt;all gone from the regt., but if they are so&lt;br /&gt;I hope it is only to go home or on some&lt;br /&gt;such pleasant journey. Miner of course&lt;br /&gt;is away, but I do not know where at all.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you will not forget to write to&lt;br /&gt;your boy now he is away, for receiving your &lt;br /&gt;letters is one of his chief joys. Yours, Homer&lt;/p&gt;
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Officers Hosp. Annapolis Md.&lt;br /&gt;Wed. Oct. 19th 1864&lt;br /&gt;Dr Friends at Home&lt;br /&gt;I think of so many things I wish&lt;br /&gt;to say to you that while I have leisure I will write some of them. &lt;br /&gt;I wish to know all about house affairs from the moment I left until the&lt;br /&gt;present moment. Did Miranda + Mr. Edmund go up that Thurs. and&lt;br /&gt;did you ever return with Miranda and let the dishes stand. When did&lt;br /&gt;Aunt Sarah + Mr. Edmund return to Northeast. Has Lucys school begun.&lt;br /&gt;O and a hundred other little nothings. Who is going to get that pretty&lt;br /&gt;album and those really pretty lithographs that I got so angry at Uncle&lt;br /&gt;Louis about! Did your cash hold out to get home, girls? Mine did so&lt;br /&gt;much better than I expected that I must tell you about it. Perhaps&lt;br /&gt;you remember I told you what I had outside the even $100.00 would not &lt;br /&gt;take me through New York, but it did more took me clean through to &lt;br /&gt;Annapolis and was not quite gone there. Dont you think the pleasantest&lt;br /&gt;hours we had in B'port were those at Aunt Lucys? I do and the pleasant&lt;br /&gt;est hour that up in my little room, talking over prospects and the past&lt;br /&gt;and future. You dont know how bad I felt at the depot when I thought&lt;br /&gt;the train was coming and Fannie away. I felt bad enough to leave you&lt;br /&gt;at all, but I think I could not have gone without a sight of both your&lt;br /&gt;faces. I believe there were others on the platform when I left, but I&lt;br /&gt;recal none, can remember no faces but those 2 slightly tearful ones.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if a few tears from my eyes would not have started those dumplings&lt;br /&gt;from my throat. I could have sobbed like a boy, but that would have done&lt;br /&gt;very little good and would not have been much to my credit anyway,&lt;br /&gt;so I swallowed grief and tears with election returns from Penn. etc. from Tribune&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 2]&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever heard from our groups yet? When they come will you not send &lt;br /&gt;me one in which I am capped. Dont let Charrie pay for any. For she more&lt;br /&gt;than paid me for her tickets, and now while I think of it wont you pay&lt;br /&gt;Fred Colemans blacksmith bill, less than a dollar, he told me I am sure&lt;br /&gt;but the exact amount he had forgotten and Jobel a little bill for fixing my &lt;br /&gt;boots which my hurried leave prevented me from paying. Pay and send &lt;br /&gt;the amount to me if you please and I will remit. Please write too if&lt;br /&gt;you get the invoice I subscribed for Mrs. J.S. Carliss this morning and you ought&lt;br /&gt;to get it this week sure. If not write to that office and I will advise Mr. Tribuno&lt;br /&gt;of his duty. I took the precaution to note the number, date and letter of the bill&lt;br /&gt;and date and place of the mailing, so I will give Mr. T. some particulars&lt;br /&gt;if he does not send on his paper soon. Lt. Chapin has left us for&lt;br /&gt;home. He got his discharge yesterday and I presume is nearly home now.&lt;br /&gt;(Thurs. morn 20th Oct.) I did not see him very much while he was here&lt;br /&gt;for he was in another ward, but I saw he did not wish to return to the&lt;br /&gt;regt. indeed he told me that none of the officers of the 2nd that had been &lt;br /&gt;here, wished to go back. He spoke harshly of Col. Mackenzie and of&lt;br /&gt;his treatment of the 2nd saying that he would much rather go back to&lt;br /&gt;his old regt. (the 15th C.V.) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;be&lt;/span&gt; infantry sure. Did I ever tell you&lt;br /&gt;anything of Phil? He was private in the 15th C.V. until Burnsides battle&lt;br /&gt;of Fredericksburg, when for special bravery and daring he was promoted 2nd Lt.&lt;br /&gt;He told me that he was in no way responsible for what he did that day&lt;br /&gt;as he was so full of whiskey that he did not know anything he did,&lt;br /&gt;but I hope he overdrew this part of his story, for it seemed like he&lt;br /&gt;might have been brave without whiskey - much more to his credit.&lt;br /&gt;He is out of the service now and quite happy I think he looked so when&lt;br /&gt;I met him yesterday noon as I was going to dinner. He did not lean&lt;br /&gt;on his staff heavily at all and his face looked brighter than usual&lt;br /&gt;He went off without bidding me good by even, he was so excited and pleased&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 3]&lt;br /&gt;I was sorry about those vignettes of mine. For it did seem as though &lt;br /&gt;they might have been better. I think Mr. Eriksons taste in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;poses&lt;/span&gt; is not&lt;br /&gt;very correct. There was no necessity of my looking so gawky. For really I can&lt;br /&gt;be better looking than that. For I have been by other artists, however I do&lt;br /&gt;not care very much. I'll get some new pictures when I get promoted. &lt;br /&gt;I wish ma + Fanny, you would some time send me your cartes. I regret now&lt;br /&gt;that Ma could not have gome to N. Milford with me, and you girls to N. Britain&lt;br /&gt;but I could not see how it was to be done in the time of it, and it is just a &lt;br /&gt;little late now. Do you know I am afraid you did not see me in the&lt;br /&gt;best light, when I was home? I found everything so new and still so &lt;br /&gt;natural that I was confused a bit at first and then I wanted to be so&lt;br /&gt;very free and boyish that I fear I sometimes rather overdid the subject.&lt;br /&gt;But if you knew how I enjoyed every moment I spent in Conn. most&lt;br /&gt;especially those hours at home, you would easily forgive my follies. I&lt;br /&gt;can never enjoy anything &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; in this world than those little tete a tetes we&lt;br /&gt;used to have after the company was gone, and then Miss Strong was abed.&lt;br /&gt;But there are new names, new faces for me now, for a time.&lt;br /&gt;After breakfast, Phil did not go yesterday after all. I met him going to b'fast&lt;br /&gt;but he goes today, so I will have an opportunity to see him and bid him&lt;br /&gt;adieu. I have just come off from the wharf with Capt. Harding and Lieut. Dale&lt;br /&gt;We went down to see the paroled prisoners from Charleston via Fortress Monroe&lt;br /&gt;per steamer New York. A sad, sad sight. Officers looked comfortable generally&lt;br /&gt;but the poor boys were almost gone with starvation, some half dozen quite so.&lt;br /&gt;Some 40 of us go before the Board of Examination this morning, and I&lt;br /&gt;should not be surprised if some of us went out to reinforce "Sheridan&lt;br /&gt;Sheridan, Cavalry Sheridan" in a day or two. I would like to go if &lt;br /&gt;I could stand it there, but if it was just as convenient I would prefer&lt;br /&gt;some lighter duty for a few days, until I was a little stronger in body.&lt;br /&gt;My appetite is good now, not so voracious as when at home and I am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[page 4]&lt;br /&gt;very regular in meals and hours and would soon be strong and healthy&lt;br /&gt;I hope if left here or put on light duty, but if sent to front I shall&lt;br /&gt;try to get well by the way, and it may be best so. I shall be satisfied&lt;br /&gt;any way, and shall never forget to thank God for the privilege I enjoy&lt;br /&gt;of seeing you all at home and so well whatever may befal me in &lt;br /&gt;the future. We all enjoyed it I think and will all pray that some &lt;br /&gt;day not far distant we may meet again for more than "forty (40) days"&lt;br /&gt;I am sure we shall meet, and I hope here in life, but if not it will be,&lt;br /&gt;I trust, in heaven and there will be no leaves of absence there to annoy&lt;br /&gt;us. Phil went off about 2 or 3 o'c and long ere this, is buzzing up toward home&lt;br /&gt;so now I am quite alone and should be very lonely if I could not write to you&lt;br /&gt;and the other Friends. I am trying hard to get my diary and correspondence&lt;br /&gt;up even, but it is no small job, and is far from completion yet.&lt;br /&gt;Friday morn. Still here, but without anything near to relate. We hear&lt;br /&gt;rumors of a fight up the Valley, and it is said Sheridan has&lt;br /&gt;defeated Longstreet but as yet it is only a rumor. Hope it's true.&lt;br /&gt;Lt. Dale, a new friend of ours of the 4th Va. Inf. 8th A Corps is going&lt;br /&gt;up to the army today. I wish I was able to go with him, but&lt;br /&gt;shall have to wait a few days. Dale is a splendid fellow and&lt;br /&gt;has seen a great deal of service under Grant, Sherman + Sheridan&lt;br /&gt;Was wouded and taken prisoner at Vicksburg and has since been&lt;br /&gt;in all the Valley battles under Crook, Hunter, + Sheridan,&lt;br /&gt;I got a months pay this morning and I will send you the note&lt;br /&gt;now to be applied on the note I gave you. It is better interest&lt;br /&gt;than I paid you, in fact is the best of anything but the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;five twenties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lou can get the coupons cashed in Litchfield I presume. Dont expect&lt;br /&gt;me to flood fore with money, probably I shall send for some soon&lt;br /&gt;but I would rather not break this bill, for I wish you to have it&lt;br /&gt;and the interest. Besides I have plenty of money yet. Horace.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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