April 26, 1864.
My dear sister:
We are in daily expectation of orders for moving. The
weather and roads are now favourable. We have had time enough to make the
campaign a certain thing; but we have been engaged in winning political
victories, when we should have been engaged in preparing for the rebels. We
have to-day more soldiers in the Union States than we have in the rebel.
The news from all parts of the country is unfavourable, and
will be so long as we divide our forces into small detachments and endeavour to
hold places that are not of the least value to us, and we are now assembling a
force on the Peninsula just large enough to be of no use, and it will certainly
be gobbled up. The rebels are to-day as strong as we are, opposite to us. The
picture will be sent in a few days. With much love, I am, as ever,
Your affectionate
brother,
J. S.
SOURCE: George William Curtis, Correspondence of
John Sedgwick, Major-General, Volume 2, p. 181-2
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