Headquarters Second Brigade,
First Div., Seventeenth Army Corps,
Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 22, 1863.
My
Dear Wife:
I propose sending to
you to-day, per Adams’ Express Company, a box of pictures.
The group will be
interesting to strangers, containing as it does, Generals Grant and Thomas; the
other gentlemen are members of General Grant's staff — Captain Jane, Colonel
Duff, Colonel Riggin, and Captain Carncross, the latter aid to General Thomas.
I congratulate you
upon the results of the late election, partial news of which has this night
reached me. The soldiers of Ohio will begin to feel that they may yet find a
home outside their camp. I think Mr. Pugh and his tool, Mr. Vallandigham, have
gone to their political grave, from which there will be no resurrection.
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| Major General U. S. Grant and Officers New Orleans, 1863 |
SOURCE: Walter
George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 342-3
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