...s a general aspiration in the regiment, not confined to field and staff, to take our chance of some hard knocks from the Rebels, rather than die of mildew in these wretched fens near the Potomac. Fort Albany , October 3. Your pleasant picture of placid, rural Concord takes me miles away from this war-blasted scene, and brings to my mind the murmuring pines and elms of the Avenue and North Branch, an...