Wheelock G. Veazey to Julia A. Veazey
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What do you expect me to say to others about my family when I write to it so
often. Am glad you did not send any solidified milk. We have good milk enough,
& that kind dont amount to anything. We live well enough, not much variety,
but appetites good enough to make up. I weigh 176 lbs. We had turkey and
chickens, Thanksgiving day. I sent an invitation to Lt. Fayban to dine with me,
but he was sick. I have not seen him yet, & don’t know him by sight, but
have inquired for him several times.
Major Seaver has returned, is
well, had a fine time. His wife has fully recovered, says it dont pay to go home
it is so hard getting away again. Believe I would run the risk if I could get
away bye & bye. I have read the Cloister & the Hearth, have you? Went to
Washington yesterday, had a fine time. Went to the theatre. Heard something I
never heard before I.E our national airs hissed when played by the ochestra.
How it made my blood freeze & rush from my heart alternately. Of course we
soon drowned the hissing by our own applause, but we knew the serpents were
there. I instinctively felt for my pistol. How quickly the
officers
present straitened up when they heard the hissing. Should like to have seen a
miniature battle if we could have picked out the traitors. Some ladies wear
secesh bonnets in Washington. They have frequent fires there
& it said they are bound to burn the city yet, if the rebels fail to take
it. I would like to see it burn if it were not Washington, for it is the poorest
specimen of a city I ever saw, but it is fast becoming Easternized. Eastern
enterprize is filling in there rapidly, & I think it will follow our army
wherever it goes. I think the time is at hand when the leniency of the
Ad’s’tion must give way to a more rigid policy towards the rebels. Their
property of all kinds must be confiscated, & thus make the war pay its
expenses & in fact be a profit. The rebels are too much in earnest to be
coaxed, therefore drive them in earnest I say. As I cant come myself I thought I
would do the next best thing How do you like it? This boy Scott was my orderly
the other day & drew this so I thought I would send it to you. I am
sleepy.
Good night my angel
Yr fond husbandWheelock Veazey