Camp Humphreys near Falmouth Va April 8^th 1863

 

Dear Sister

            I received yours of the 3^rd Inst on the 7^th and was glad to hear from you. You did not state that you were well or not, but I presume you are or else you would have said so.

 

Since I last wrote you we have had several snows, one while we were out on picket, it commenced to snow at about 8 O'clock in the evening (while I was on post) and continued til noon next day; it not only snowed but blowed furiously, with such force did the wind drive the snow that one was hardly able to face it; the snow was about 8 in deep, however in one day after there was not much to be seen.

 

The weather at present is beautiful, roads are drying off fast, and everything favorable for a move.

 

Yesterday there was a grand review of the army of the Potomac by president Lincoln & Hooker, it was a grand sight to see so many troops concentrated together in such a space of ground as they were the men were well dressed and in good spirits. All things about this army now are right or nearly so / Hooker has brought out this army so well that no one can doubt its success in the future. I believe that if this army had been commanded by some such a man as Hooker or Burnside at the time M^cClellan commanded it, this war might have run to an end. M^cClellan the little God (as the people was want to call him) his actions while in command of this army are being revealed. The report of the committee on the conduct of the war shows that he is responsible for a good many things read the report of the committee on the conduct of the war & you will see that he is not fit to command an army                      

 

I & the rest of us are well

           

Please write soon

                       

Your Brother

W. H. Weirick

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