Letter Writing.
— When eligible, I encourage the men to write, and myself, when call'd
upon, write all sorts of letters for them, (including love letters, very tender ones.) Almost as I reel
off this memoranda, I write for a new patient to his wife. M. de F., of the Seventeenth
Connecticut, Company H, has just come up (February 17) from Windmill Point, and is received
Ward H, Armory Square. He is an intelligent looking man, has a foreign accent, black-eyed and
hair'd, a Hebraic appearance. Wants a telegraphic message sent to his wife, New Canaan, Ct. I
agree to send the message — but to make things sure, I also sit down and write the wife a letter,
and despatch it to the post-office immediately, as he fears she will come on, and he does not wish
her to, as he will surely get well.
