Then
they may get it, but not once in a thousand any other way.
This is another fine day, clear and warm. I have just put on one of my new check shirts
and am in my shirt sleeves. Peach trees in full bloom and grass is growing fine. It has
rained a great deal here, and I hope it has up in your country, and I hope it will
continue to rain and rain the Miss River higher and higher till the like never was
known even by the oldest residents. It looks like raining shortly. I wish I could send
some things home, overcoat and other little curiosities that fall into my hands. I could
have quite a selection by the time my three years is out, but there is no chance to
do anything. Perhaps our Captain will go home after next pay day if that day ever
comes, and then I can send my overcoat and you can sell it for enough to pay for your
washing. Gen. Logan's division landed here yesterday, and I think before long we
will have twenty or thirty thousand soldiers here and you will have [undecipherable
portion] by that time, and besides all that, we need a victory, not a partial victory,
not a victory that it will take the papers a month to prove that we whipped them, but
a complete victory to encourage our army and give confidence to our weak friends
at home. I wrote to Zetty about Silas leaving our mess and going into the Dutch mess.
