The Colonel has bidden us a final adieu. His most devoted adherents escorted him to the depot, and returned miserably drunk.
One of the color guards, an honest, sensible, goodlooking boy, has written me a letter of encouragement. I trust that soon all will feel as kindly toward me as he.
SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 103
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