Headquarters 2nd Corps
Nov. 12, 1863.
I learned through E—— that you desired the Autograph of our
present Commander so I find great pleasure in offering you this one, and I
enclose several of our real Commander, Maj. Gen. Hancock, one of the most
brilliant Generals of the army. I send besides a few I happen to have on hand,
only regretting that I have not taken pains to collect them since I have been
in the Adjutant General's Department.
I wish I could send you the autograph of the 2nd Corps! but it
makes its mark, it does not write. It makes its mark with the sword and the
letters are in blood.
Excuse the digression.
We aren't doing much just now, but hope in a few days to
satisfy the public taste with our usual Fall Spectacle — forty per cent of us
knocked over.
SOURCE: James Phinney Munroe, A Life of Francis Amasa Walker, p. 67-8
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