Camp Sedgewick.                  

Near Brandy Station Va.

March 25.

                       

Dear Sister

                                                I commenced this letter last night but very soon after commencing it I left off as I did not feel like writing. So you must now recollect that it is tomorrow, and not to day that I am scribbling these lines to you. Your letter arrived last night and was received with much pleasure. It had begun to seem to me like a long time since I had heard from you but you probably did not write last week so as to keep square with me

 

            aint it about so?

 

            I did go on picket the next day as I told you I thought likely and had a very pleasant time of it we were in the woods this time in good place. /

Are you having any winter weather now

 

            We are here and any quantity of it too. Wednesday night it began to snow, after getting ready for it two or three days, and gained on the ground very fast. In the morning when we crawled out of our tents we found it to be about a foot deep, more than all we have had before this winter put together. The sun came out warm in the fore noon and by night the snow had settled so much that it didnt seem any more than half the depth it was in the morning yesterday's sun brought the ground in sight in a great many places and had it been fair today it would all been gone tonight. It is melting fast now though it is a cold cloudy chilly day. according to Aunt Lizy's sign the next storm will be snow, for the snow blew awfully day before yesterday before the sun began to thaw it. 

 

I expect the next time I write I can tell you what kind of a looking man Lieut. Gen. Grant is. he is here at Meades Hd. Qrs. now I suppose. he was a few days ago.

 

            There will be a grand review of the whole Army as soon as the state of the weather and ground will admit, and had it not been for this snowstorm it would have taken place before now

 

            I should like to be out one side where I could see it myself for if a man is in it himself he can see but very little of it. If he reviews the army in one day as the President did last spring he will not have time to any more than ride along the lines. The reviewing officer generally rides from the right of the line to the left, in front, returning to the right in the rear, and from there rides to some elevated place in front, where the whole brigade, division, corps, or whatever it is in turn pass him in review, which takes some time / I guess you were never present at one was you. It is quite a pretty sight and I think you would be very much pleased to see one. If you could make it convenient you had better come over and see this one when it happens.

 

I dont think of much news to write any more than that the "women" have been ordered to leave the army and the sick are being sent away to general hospitals Our veterans have had an extension of twenty days to their furloughs making in all fifty five days. This was done in order to get their votes in April.

 

            I think I will put in a $20. bill this time for you to send to Grandpa. We shall not be paid more than twice more before the "time" will be up. "Two months and a bit" is the manner of expressing our term of service now, while the recruits who dont know what will be done with them after the 6 of June express theirs as 6 months 8. 10. and from that to two years and a bit. But I will close my peper sass is pretty good now. If I want anything it wont be long before you will hear of it, depend upon that, L.C.C.

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