Camp Near Memphis, Nov. 15, 1862.
I have abundance of good food, but only take one meal a day,
and that a very light one. This morning one of my lady friends in the
neighborhood sent me in a most luxurious breakfast, a roasted rabbit with jelly
sauces, and all that sort of thing, flanked by four quails with three or four
different preparations of bread and other little matters, and after the whole
thing had been elaborately spread upon a nice white cloth, I had it all bundled
up and sent off as a present to Mrs. Sherman.
I have a great many compliments of this kind and beautiful
flowers sent to me, and all sorts of pleasant messages. Last night I passed the
evening in company with General Sherman at Bishop Otie's, the Episcopal bishop
of this diocese. He has lovely daughters. One of them entertained me with
charming songs and harp accompaniment — a most beautiful girl and very
accomplished.
SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of
Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 249
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