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When I come back I intend to have
a wagon if I can beg it of any
body. I want it for carrying my stuff reading matter more abundantly than I can
do horseback for little as well as delicacies
& comforts for the sick & wounded
in these field hospitals in many
of which I find great destitution
& suffering & also for my shutter and bed
when night comes overtakes me.

By the way, within the last
two days I have seen both Lewis &
Capt Wheeler. They are very well &
in good spirits. The former in a
pleasant camp on the banks of
Warwick river & just putting
up his little lodge 4 feet by 8 of logs--
& the latter about the center of the
army with whom I look a luxurious
dinner of boiled sole leather half & hard
tack bread -- very good with a good appetite.

Lewis sent his love to you all . He appears He appears quite as well
I think as any of his fellow officers-- Neither of these friends are