Headquarters Armies Of The Un1ted States,
City Point, Va., Nov. 16, 1864.
I write not to give interesting intelligence, but simply to
advise you that I am in the land of the living, at City Point, on James River,
that waters the sacred soil, and that I am about as far to the front on my way
to Richmond as it is this day safe to go.
The James reminds me a good deal of the lower Mississippi,
and so far as I have come, its banks are studded with points of interest, and
historical in the war. At Fort Monroe, I saw the finest fleet that, perhaps,
has ever been collected in the American waters. Leaving Washington in a steamer
for this place, I passed Alexandria, Point Lookout, Harrison's Landing, Newport
News, Fort Powhatan, Wilson's Landing, Jamestown Island. If the children will
look at the map, they will discover that we descend the Potomac, scud along
Chesapeake Bay, and at Fort Monroe ascend the James, so that they can get upon
my track. There is no news here proper for me to write. General Grant is in
good health and spirits and I hear as late as last Wednesday from Sherman, who
also is well.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 364-5
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