HEADQUARTERS CAMP DENNISON,
Sept. 12, 1861.
As you will have seen in the papers “I have gone and done
it.” Now keep a stiff upper lip and sustain and cheer me all you can, and by
being cheerful yourself keep me in good spirits. I have an arduous and
responsible duty to perform, but by God's help hope to get through with honor
to myself. Have been full of business and should have written to you yesterday,
my first day in camp, which was wet and muddy enough, I assure you. We shall be
here for some weeks. It will take at least four weeks I think to organize my
regiment.
. . . . . . . . . .
Direct Lieut.-Col. Thos. Kilby Smith, Commanding 54th
Regt., Camp Dennison. The weather to-day is very fine, the camp drying up very
fast.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 174
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