Camp Near Sharpsburgh,
December 9, 1862.
Orders have come to us this afternoon to prepare for a march
to-morrow morning, with five days' rations, etc.
From what we can learn, we are going to cross the river at
Berlin, and proceed via Leesburg to Fredericksburg, to join Burnside.
Everything in camp, of course, is in apparent confusion, packing up, sending
off sick, etc. It seems hard to leave this camp, where all is so pleasant and
comfortable; the men are all nicely housed; we have first rate kitchens,
everything seemed arranged for the winter, but it is no use regretting these
things; we can stand a roughing as well as most of them, I think.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 111
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