This has been rather a pleasant Sabbath day. I have so much
to be grateful for. I had a very good dinner. My appetite has returned. Have
been reading Prayer-book and Rogers's “Italy.” To-night smoked my first
and only cigar, one that has been in my coat-pocket all the time. Just six
weeks ago to-night, at this very time, I went to see Agnes at the homestead.
Where shall I be six weeks hence? In our lines? I fear the hope is vain. I
wonder if they have been thinking of me at home to-day as much as I have of
them. I expect they have not as much spare time. Perhaps they think that
now I am out of danger, and on the whole it's rather a good thing!!
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 129
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