The Other Side of War With the Army of the Potomac Letters From the Headquarte
The Other Side of War With the Army of the Potomac Letters From the Headquarte
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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Olmsted s health begins to give the doctors serious uneasiness, so they tell me ; but he says he is well. " WILSON SMALL, " June 9. DEAR MOTHER, I can t retain the least recollection of when I write, or what I write, or to whom it is written. I only know that I do write to somebody nearly every day. You owe the multitude of my letters partly to the fact that they are written here and there at odd moments, and partly to the other fact that when we go off duty we go utterly off, and come up to ou...r little haven of rest, the " Small. " When we get here we can t sit and do nothing, we can t think, we can t read ; what can we do but write ? Sometimes the intense excitement of our lives finds vent and ease in writing ; but at other times, when we have nothing THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR. 121 pressing to do, we feel so inert that the effort to collect our thoughts to write even a line is too great. We have so many letters to scrib ble for the poor fellows that materials must always be handy. I go about with my note- paper rolled up in a magazine and stuck, with pens and ink, into an apron-pocket ; and so it sometimes happens that a letter to you is be gun, continued, or ended while on duty.
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