HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT.
O. V. INF.,
CAMP SHILOH, TENN., April
17, 1862.
Captain1 is still safe, and I think if he gets
through this war, he will be sufficiently broken for the children to ride.
Though his mettle is as good as the best war horse of them all.
__________
1 A bay horse of much beauty.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 194
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