I hope you are very well at the Falls and I wish I were
there myself. The fact is I feel that it is just about time for me to be going
home again, and the only trouble is that my immediate commanders don't see it
in that light. It would be very nice indeed to be in some civilized place again
after three months of the utter barbarism of camp life in Virginia.
I suppose we shall begin our campaign in a week or two, and
then you will find the newspapers interesting. Something will break before we
give up in this trial for Richmond.
A great Review of the 6th Corps to-day — but the great Review
is yet to come, of course I mean the review of the 2nd. I wish dear Lucy you
could be here to see it, over twenty thousand veterans all on one field with
music and banners and cannon and two thousand horsemen. My! it is quite grand
even for an old soldier to see.
SOURCE: James Phinney Munroe, A Life of Francis Amasa Walker, p. 69
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