..., and it seemed as if we were a collection of Neros, fiddling while Rome burned. I wrote thus far last month, when the demon of laziness made a prey and a spoil of me; and then I was sent by Surgeon-General Dale to the assistance of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, which had come to great grief at Culpeper. . . . . Everything there was quiet and comfortable, till suddenly there came an order for the regime...