July 10.
— Still the camp opposite — perhaps 50 or 60 tents. Some of the men are cleaning
their sabres, (pleasant to-day,) some brushing boots, some laying off, reading,
writing — some
cooking, some sleeping — On long temporary cross-sticks back of the tents are hung saddles and
cavalry accoutrements — blankets and overcoats are hung out to air — there are the squads of horses
tether'd, feeding, continually stamping and whisking their tails to keep off flies.......I sit long in
third story window and look at the scene — a hundred little things going on — or peculiar objects
connected with the camp that could not be described, any one of them justly, without much
minute drawing and coloring in words.
