Headquarters Engineer Brigade,
Camp near Falmouth, May 13, 1863.
Dear Father, — I think I shall go on General Crawford’s staff. He commands the Pennsylvania Reserves and is stationed on the defences of Washington. I hear very good accounts of him, and know his adjutant-general very well.
I am sorry to say that the army have very little confidence in General Hooker. When he was at Chancellorsville, he said that he had a position which God Almighty could not drive him from, and that he had the rebels and God Almighty could not help them. Not much wonder that we were whipped, I think.
I am quite busy and must stop, in order to get this into the mail.
