CAMP HASTINGS, March
18, 1865.
DEAR Uncle: — I have
very little care or responsibility. My command is exclusively a fighting
command. I have nothing to do with guards, provost or routine duty connected with
posts. Mine is the only movable column west of Winchester. If an
enemy threatens any place, I am to send men there when ordered. My time is
wholly occupied drilling and teaching tactics and the like.
My brigade furnishes details for guard and provost when needed, but I
am not bothered with them when on such duty. My regiments are all large; nearly
four thousand men in the four, of whom twenty-five hundred are
present at least. General Crook is again out, and we hope
he will return to this command. We like Hancock very well. He behaved very
handsomely with Crook's staff, and all of the troops and officers
which [that] were particularly favorites with Crook. We were all left in our
old positions, although some pressure was brought against it.
I see gold is
tumbling. If no mishap befalls our armies, the downward tendency will probably
continue. Then debtors must look out. It will not be so easy
to pay debts when greenbacks are worth eighty to ninety (cents) on the dollar.
My four years are up about the first of June.
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