Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 3, 1863

March 3.

Beautiful weather still. In the evening we sat out around the fire in the rear of my tent, smoking our pipes; bright moonlight; the nights are very cold, although the days are so hot.

SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 66-7