Ft. McHenry Md.
 U.S. is being organized under Sheridan to enter Texas and make a "windup" of the rebellion. 
Baltimore Md. July 4" 1867. 
The day passed off exceedingly quiet, half the population left the city for the various Parks in the suburbs of the City. Sky rockets, fire crackers pistols &c. are being fired continually. Massive Flags wave from the housetops and across throughout the City. I see many young men, who were shining lights before the war, have become debased; and in all probability will turn to be criminals when they get out of the service. The chances of the war have brought men of inferior minds to places of opulence and distinction, but when their worth, intellectually, comes to be tested when they get out of the service, they will again drift to the channel nature intended for them to flow in. On the 29th of may by proclamation of the President, the war was declared at an end. 500,000 men are thrown out of the service and employment. Many have turned pick pockets, Robers &c.  Judgment and forethought is required to restore the country
