Washington, D. C, February 7, 1865.
If I can get permission, I shall stop for a day to see you,
as I return to the field, unless, indeed, as there is some reason to suppose, I
be transferred to another command. I am offered a splendid division in the
cavalry service. . . .
But if I take it I am brought right into the Army of the Potomac,
and I can't bear to lose my Western boys, or the broad Savannahs in the South,
where I hope glory yet awaits me. I have been to some parties and some
receptions, have paid my respects to most of the Secretaries and to the
President and his wife, and altogether have been having a pretty good time here
in Washington. My mind has been relaxed and relieved, and it has done me good.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 379-80
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