Monday morning. 15th Good morning my pet. I expect you are enjoying a snow storm, as we down in Dixy are having quite a rain. It commenced raining Friday & has rained pretty near all the time since except last night, it slacked up a portion of the night the creeks have run down considerably, but it has commenced again. Col Kinsman has not yet returned with his Quinine Brigade as he calls the 120 sick he is bringing down from Arcadia poor fellows, how they will get along through rain & mud is more than I can tell. It has been said by some who have come down that he (the Col) has 3 or 4 on his horse at one time then taking on foot. wading through the mud as lively as a school boy. encouraging them along he is a verry cheerful & lively man. I suppose he has his men in houses if they can be had if not he will stay out with them. Our armies would soon come off victorious if they were lead by men of as pure motives as he. We are looking verry anxiously for the news from Burnsides and his orders we got no papers.  We get news here very soon after any movement is made, for instance Burnsides crossed the Rapahannock on thursday & on Saturday morning we were reading the particulars of the fight that you see is pretty soon considering the distance. How I should like to have been there & have heard that terible cannonade The first fire was opened by 143 guns, & then afterwards when Burnside commanded to concentrate the whole force of Artilery on the Citty (Fredericksburg)  How the doomed city must have trembled & reeled under such rounds in all into the citty setting it on fire in many places. But the Rebels retreated to their fortification on the hill in the rear and they may be hard to dislodge
