Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 26, 1864

April 26, 1864.
My dear sister:

We are in daily expectation of orders for moving. The weather and roads are now favourable. We have had time enough to make the campaign a certain thing; but we have been engaged in winning political victories, when we should have been engaged in preparing for the rebels. We have to-day more soldiers in the Union States than we have in the rebel.

The news from all parts of the country is unfavourable, and will be so long as we divide our forces into small detachments and endeavour to hold places that are not of the least value to us, and we are now assembling a force on the Peninsula just large enough to be of no use, and it will certainly be gobbled up. The rebels are to-day as strong as we are, opposite to us. The picture will be sent in a few days. With much love, I am, as ever,

Your affectionate brother,
J. S.

SOURCE: George William Curtis, Correspondence of John Sedgwick, Major-General, Volume 2, p. 181-2

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