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were all going on a merrymaking, to hear them when the order was issued.
Our object is to fight the enemy, which I pray we may do, and with success, but
Dieu dispose.
Our stopper has been the weather, which to-night promises to be set fair, and the roads are passable, though not good.
I wish some critics, who complain of our inactivity, could be compelled to take a soldier's load and march twenty miles through this mud. Their next article would, I think, clearly set forth the necessity of doing nothing till the driest of weather.
Headquarters Army of Potomac November 27, 1863
Here we are, camped south of the
Rapid Ann, and I find a leisure moment to write you a letter, or rather to begin one.
My last formal note, I believe, informed you we were to move “to-morrow” (26th). And, sure enough, yesterday we kept our Thanksgiving by marching, horse, foot, and artillery, as hard as we could paddle towards Germanna Ford.
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The above rough map, with the other I sent when I wrote at
Centreville, will sufficiently explain our moves.
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