Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 3, 1862

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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