HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGIMENT
O. V. U. S. A.,
CAMP SHILOH, TENNESSEE,
April 12, 1862.
I have an opportunity of writing at private hand, which I
must not let slip although I wrote you yesterday. My health never was better,
and I am in good spirits, hoping for another engagement, which I trust will be
the last. . . . The next time our boys will be exactly in fighting trim. You
must not permit yourself to be worried about me. God will take the same good
care of me in the future as He has done in the past. The God of Battles (to
whom I am grateful with all my heart, for He alone has saved me) will still
stretch forth His protecting arm, unless it is His Will that I should go, and
if it is His Will, I trust I shall be ready.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 194
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