Eastport, Miss., January 10, 1865.
Our fleet arrived here this morning, and I am just debarking
troops in the muddiest, worst country I ever saw. For some days past, as I
wrote you in a former letter, I have been upon the flag ship of Admiral Lee,
commanding the Mississippi Squadron, and have been very comfortable; the almost
entire rest has been favorable to my health. I shall now be compelled to rough
it ashore, but I think I shall get through.
General Thomas, I this moment learn, is expected here
to-day.
The weather is warm, raining, muggy, and intensely
disageeable, a warm Southern winter such as we had at Young's Point.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 377-8
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