NEW CREEK, WEST
VIRGINIA, April 12, 1865.
DEAR UNCLE:— I am
just beginning to fully realize and enjoy our great victories. I am
more glad to think my fighting days are ended than I had expected. Grant
deserves his great victory. Crook, too, had a conspicuous place. It was his
immediate command which captured the wagon train, Armstrong guns, prisoners,
etc., which figure so largely in Sheridan's reports.
I am still preparing
for my expedition, but I am confident it is given up and will never
be undertaken; it is rendered useless. I think it not improbable that there
will be an extra session of Congress; if so, I go out of service
then, of course. I am pretty
I well pleased with
matters now. Pecuniarily, I shall gain by staying in service as long as
possible. That consideration aside, I am ready to quit now almost any time.
Address me at this place.
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