p.

many of the men gave out
before we came to a halt, here
and all are well worn down.
I am very well still, and fur-
ther than the discomfort of
the great heat, enjoy it well.
We are six miles from War-
renton, near the bank of the
Rappahannock, in some such
a country as it is around
Plainfield Springs, and we
are near the famous "Sulphur
Springs" of Va. which I intend
to visit some day, if we stay
here long enough. Inhabitants
are very scattering here now
and what there are here, and
at Warrenton, too, are open Se-
cessionists. I have not spoken
with a single white who was
an exception. The Negros, so
far as they dare be are for
the Union and droves of them

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come into camp every day &
are forwarded to Alexandria
and Washington. Three fourths
of them will wish themselves
back with "Ole Missus" within
three weeks of getting to those
places. Carrying off Negros will
never close the war and from
what I learned of them in
Washington and from what
I see of them in [underline]Slavery[/underline] I
think they are better off for
the present, in the [underline]latter[/underline].
I am not indeed ProSlavery
and I am not Ultra Abolition-
ist, either, but until we can
make them [underline]better off[/underline], by free-
ing them, instead of [underline]worse[/underline],
as we have thus far done, we
had best let them alone.

We do not get many papers
now and I do not know what
is going on, any where.