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Our marches since the battle have
been very monotonous, only varied by chang-
es from heat and dust to rain and mud,
and vice-versa. We found James “City” ( or
Jim’s City, as the people called it,) to con-
sist of four dwellings, one Post Office, a
store or factory, two smoke-houses, a half
dozen negro quarters, and one shed over a
dry well. There may have been another
smoke-house, but I wouldn’t like to swear
to it now. Remingtonville had one house,
Kent Court House about half a dozen,
all very fine and neat, and an old look-
ing hotel.
You speak in your last letter, and
I think in others, of being low-spirited.
I am sorry to find that you are melancholy,
and wish that I could relieve you. What
do you judge to be the cause or causes of
your sadness? I am afraid I have written
in too gloomy a tone, and should have had
more sense, but a melancholy vein was over
me also, and like the Hebrews at Babylon, I
could not sing while my heart was pining.
If religion is the cause of your sadness, do not,
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