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Army of the Potomac Camp near
Centreville, Virginia November 26th, 1861
My Dear Sallie,
I am in receipt of your letter of the 14th and as is my custom, answer it immediately. I have nothing of interest to write you. The cry is we will fight this week, or next week, but I still hold to my opinion that we will have no general engagement here unless the Lincoln fleet should obtain some great victory on some of the Southern coast. We [are] anxiously awaiting the news of the results of the engagement at Pensacola. Our latest advices from there are up to the 24th. I confidently expect by tomorrow's mail to hear that Fort Pickens is ours. If so, McClellan will perhaps attack us here to cover the loss there by a great victory here. But if he does, we'll give his vile Hessians the worst whipping they ever had. We are strongly entrenched here and now fear no danger.
It is rumored that our regiment will be put in a brigade of Mississippians and sent to Ocoquan, which is south
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| Transcript | Army of the Potomac Camp near Centreville, Virginia November 26th, 1861 My Dear Sallie, I am in receipt of your letter of the 14th and as is my custom, answer it immediately. I have nothing of interest to write you. The cry is we will fight this week, or next week, but I still hold to my opinion that we will have no general engagement here unless the Lincoln fleet should obtain some great victory on some of the Southern coast. We [are] anxiously awaiting the news of the results of the engagement at Pensacola. Our latest advices from there are up to the 24th. I confidently expect by tomorrow's mail to hear that Fort Pickens is ours. If so, McClellan will perhaps attack us here to cover the loss there by a great victory here. But if he does, we'll give his vile Hessians the worst whipping they ever had. We are strongly entrenched here and now fear no danger. It is rumored that our regiment will be put in a brigade of Mississippians and sent to Ocoquan, which is south |
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