Warrenton, Virginia, August 23, 1863.
My dear sister:
I can scarcely hope to make you a visit this fall. I had
hoped that something would turn up that would give me a few days' leave, but
cannot see it now. I feel that I have done more than my share of field duty in
the last four years; there are many General officers that have never been in the
field, and I am one of the very few that started out and have been constantly
on duty with the Army of the Potomac. The presentation that I wrote you about
some weeks since comes off on Wednesday. I have not seen the articles yet, but
have been told they are very handsome and rich. The horse is a beauty, cost six
hundred dollars; his equipments, with the round girth and other traps, cost
over seventeen hundred. I shall not know what to do with them. They will be too
expensive for the field. The conscripts are coming in slowly, but, so far, not
as many as have been sent off to enforce the draft. It will be many weeks
before they are fit to take the field. I should not be surprised if some other
field was chosen for the next operations. With much love to all, I am, as ever,
Your affectionate
brother,
J. s.
SOURCE: George William Curtis, Correspondence of
John Sedgwick, Major-General, Volume 2, p. 145-6
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