To-day supplies continue to arrive by the way of Grand Junction and Jackson; but no mail arrives. How anxious and lonely the soldiers are becoming here in this secluded part of the world, without any mail or any news from the north. But we have a good time for abstraction, and a good time for the study of human nature. Man cannot find a more extensive scope for its study than here in the camp and field. If man has faults he will show them; if he has virtues they will shine like the beauty and splendor of the noon-day sun; and those manly virtues that go to beautify the character of man, are seen shedding their light all around us. But we believe that here, more than in any other place, man can be persuaded of the truthfulness of the doctrine of human depravity; and at the same time can he be persuaded of the beauty of human redemption.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh
Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 129
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