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Heaven— God loves the children as he
did the fathers. Our cause is a holy
one. Think it not then strange that
our soldiers can be brave under such
combined inspiration. Yesterday I
went along the whole of the left wing
quite to the James river. In the swamps
the camps are in a miserable condition
I fear will soon to become sickly, but they
cannot be otherwise placed and retain [illegible]
their cover covered position. As you come to Warwick
Court House & then pass along the banks
of Warwick river to its confluence
with the James the country becomes
more elevated & open & at the same time is yet still is
thoroughly sheltered by the strip of woodland
along the margin of the stream.
Some deserted plantations here are
very large & have been highly cultivated.
One contains 2200 acres & was worked by a hundred negroes. Broad
fields have here been plowed & even
planted with the spring crops & I [illegible] fed my horse in a green wheat field
of at least one hundred acres. The young