It Will Be All Right If It

A Military Life Had No Charms For Me, And I Had Not The Faintest Idea Of Staying In The Army Even If I Should Be Graduated, Which I Did Not Expect.

I Appreciate The Fact, And Am Proud Of It, That The Attentions I Am Receiving Are Intended More For Our Country Than For Me Personally.

I Never Was An Abolitionest, Not Even What Could Be Called Anti Slavery, But I Try To Judge Farely And Honestly And It Become Patent To My Mind Early In The Rebellion That The North And South Could Never Live At Peace With Each Other Except As One Nation, And That Without Slavery.

There Is Nothing More I Should Do To It Now, And Therefore I Am Not Likely To Be More Ready To Go Than At This Moment.

Retreat? No. I Propose To Attach At Daylight And Whip Them.