Ransom W. Towle to Family and Friends
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I have been reading those Standards you sent me which have done much to employ
and while away the long hours of idleness which afflict us all here. This week I
failed to get my Tribune which has come in Friday night before - that I miss
greatly. So this week I am not posted in the latest Political News. I look with
anxiety for Foreign and all Army News as do all the thinking men in the Army for
to make the best of it war is a thing of stern reality attended with hardship
and privation which all except some high in Office would jump with joy to see it
closed and be discharged and be once more at liberty to go to their homes. Men
may write such letters as they please to cheer anxious Friends at home but this
is the almost universal feeling here yet the actual suffering in this Reg. is
limited to a very few cases. Col. Stoughton who you have already heard has
tendered
his resignation on account of a misunderstanding between
him and Gen. Smith is to remain with us for the present - his resignation not
being accepted and we are all glad of the fact as he is an abler Col. than any
man who would be likely to succeed him In fact, I think he is the best Col. in
the Brigade. Today at Religious Service we had the humanizing effects of the
presence of three Ladies. wives of Officers in the 6th Vt. Reg. it was quite a
rarity to us and doubtless was to them to attend worship after our fashion which
is to form in hollow Square face inwards and stand at Parade rest. Which in the
winter is not so agreeable as to go into a good warm Church and Sit down in a
well cushioned Pew If you want any money I will Send you a Check and let you
draw mine from the State Treasurer. I have made an Allotment of a small amount
to the State Treasury which with my State pay you may draw if you want it or if
you can use it to advantage. [To]-rat-tat-tat goes the Drum for
Roll Call so good bye
Ransom