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I must close. Please write me often.
Love to all as tho' [named?]. Ever with love to thee.
Thy Son,
W. B. Stevens
To R. B. Stevens
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Assistant Quarter Master's Office, Head Quarters 2d Div., 6th Corps,
Sept. 15th 1863.
Dear Mother:
Once more on the move, will drop a hasty Line to thee.
We left our old Camp this P.M. and are now bevouaced at Sulphur Springs with orders to be ready to start at daylight to-morrow.
I am well, and glad to be on the march once more. No one seems to know where we are going to, and I, for one, do not much care if we only succeed in going somewhere, where we can stay a while
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I must write but a little for it is time I was in bed, but after making the daily Reports, I thought the opportunity too good to lose. Some of the Vermont Regts. are here yet, and yesterday none of them had arrived at Alexandria. I do not know where they are & do not much care.
While they are from us [underline]we[/underline] have only [Bri'g.?] to attend to, so though it does not lessen the labor a half, it makes it much easier for me and the rest of us.
We have only nineteen Wagons now in our train so we have no great trouble on the road.
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Purley had not got to the Junction yesterday, so I do not suppose Horace is in Camp yet, and indeed I do not look for him at all, this season.
Obe has not been to see me yet, if he has got back, of which I am not sure. I duly honored the Springs with my presence & imbibed freely of the Water, which from its coolness, if nothing else, is a luxury, here.
Some disasters seem to crown our apparent success at Sumter, but I look for full success to our arms there eventually, and that, soon.
