... word—in whom I had full confidence. Many of them—some of them—friends whom I loved. A life, as long as Methuselah's would not let me see another such army as that we had from Harper's Ferry via Manassas and Yorktown, to the Chickahominy and Richmond. However, the tone and temper of this army has certainly improved greatly since the beginning of 1864, and I would now freely meet odds o...