p.

but what, we are only able to co[njec]ture.

I will write again in a few days
Remington went to Lebanon Sunday
and has not returned, yet which
has been the means of keeping me very
busy. Last night I got a full nights
sleep for the first time for over a
week. Very often I am up all night
at other times I sleep half the night
and others an hour or two, but I have
got so short I can lay down at any
time & place and sleep like a book
and it does not seem to wear upon me
as I supposed it would. I don't know
but I feel as well as I should if I
were at home, which surprises me very
much when I see hosts of other stout
fellows falling around me all of the
time, and filling up the hospitals
where they are almost sure to die.

Every church in this city,--and there
are some large ones--and every school
house, together with the courthouse and
barns, and every available place are filled
with the sick, - not wounded, but sick
which are reported to amount ot
eight thousand. I dread a sick hospital
worse than a dozen battle fields.