Camp Near Hampton, April 3, 1862.
My dear sister:
I have time to write but a word. I have been on horseback
since light this morning, and have just dismounted at eight o'clock. We march
at daylight, sixty thousand men and the finest artillery in the world. I do not
think we can be whipped. General McClellan arrived last night; he told me
to-day we should probably have a fight to-morrow; if not, he did not expect one
before reaching Richmond. I have no information to base an opinion on.
Good-bye.
Yours forever,
J. S.
SOURCE: George William Curtis, Correspondence of
John Sedgwick, Major-General, Volume 2, p. 42
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