I have seen these same gentlemen who talk so valiantly when the time came to move "to the front" no keener to face the music than the man with the musket on his shoulder, yet their eager talk sometimes causes the Regiment or Brigade to move & I don't know but we may go to the army of the Potomac or to Sherman yet. there is some talk of it. We are very pleasantly situated here so far as our camp is concerned - Day before yesterday we moved up the river about 1/2 a mil & are now the uper camp on the river.  Officers tents are close on the river bank there is a fine breeze & to day we have put up forks & poles in front of our tent & have green brush over them so that we have a cool pleasant site our tent is beautifully carpeted--! with a nice bluegrass sod--.  We (Cap & I) have a writing table (not mahogany but poplar) & I have two poles set up a foot from the ground & barel staves laid across for a bedstead - O I tell you we are getting aristocratic at our tent, we are  Then we are living well too & I oughtn't to talk about getting home sick ought I?  But how can I help it when I think about my little wife anxiously looking forward to the end of the war as a time when we will be restored to each other.  I know that even with your shrewdness and more than ordinary intelegence you are looking forward to the final crushing out of this rebellion - & the 3 years, yet in the future - I sometimes hope so myself - but this is a stupendous rebellion - a terible war - We are waring with a people
