But These Assertions Were Not
Made With The Intention That They Should Be Heard By An Englishman.
To Us As A Nation They Are At The Present Moment Unjust Almost
Beyond Belief; But I Do Not Think That The Feeling Has Ever Taken
The Guise Of Personal Discourtesy.
We spent two days in the camp close upon the Green River, and I do
not know that I enjoyed any days of my trip more thoroughly than I
did these.
In truth, for the last month since I had left
Washington, my life had not been one of enjoyment. I had been
rolling in mud and had been damp with filth. Camp Wood, as they
called this military settlement on the Green River, was also muddy;
but we were excellently well mounted; the weather was very cold, but
peculiarly fine, and the soldiers around us, as far as we could
judge, seemed to be better off in all respects than those we had
visited at St. Louis, at Rolla, or at Cairo. They were all in
tents, and seemed to be light-spirited and happy. Their rations
were excellent; but so much may, I think, be said of the whole
Northern army, from Alexandria on the Potomac to Springfield in the
west of Missouri. There was very little illness at that time in the
camp in Kentucky, and the reports made to us led us to think that on
the whole this had been the most healthy division of the army.
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