This morning after breakfast, Waters came to my tent and
told me he had an order from Major Morfit, to send me to his office to go to
Richmond! Can it be exchange? If so, God has quickly heard and answered my
prayers. I got my baggage together, a cotton haversack, my cane, and wooden
foot. In the first I have some tea and hard bread, in the latter nothing! I was
carted to Major Morfit in the same old wagon, without springs, waited at his
office till seven, when went to the train, waited on the platform till nine.
Then the train came jammed full, no lights, no seats, one man with me as guard.
I must leave a description of this night for some other place.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 131
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