LXXIII
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,October 30, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,October 30, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,October 30, 1862.
Camp near Alexandria, Va.,
October 30, 1862.
FIVEminutes ago I received a letter addressed in your familiar hand. Four minutes and fifty-nine seconds ago I tore open the envelope. I extracted, first, a note, which I supposed you had inclosed from Mary. I opened it. “Dear Brother” stared me full in the face. The note surely was not for me, but for brother James—just your carelessness, sending it with the wrong letter. I unfolded your letter, and—what!—“Dear Brother!”—there it was again. The whole huge joke was clear. I hope James was not as grievously disappointed when he got my letter as I was when I got his. I return it, unread if not unopened.