Fort Albany, Va., March 17, 1862.
To the family in general:
The Army of the Potomac has moved and left us in the dark; there are not 100 men in the Regt. but what would like to go ahead.
McDowell’s Division, which we once belonged to and then were put out of, and then into it again, and then off, is going to reinforce Burnside’s. The Nelly Baker and Nantasket are down in the stream, with some 20 others, to take troops to some place. What do you think of our defeat at Manassas? We were not whipped, but we did not get a chance to fight.
The talk is that McClellan will be supersceded. I don’t know it as a fact, but it is rumor.
We are about played out writing out here. Like to get letters well enough but don’t like to answer.
Here I shall close.
L-brad—Jr
P. S. Pleaseexcusethewritingwellyouknowitisbaddon’tyouwellwhatdo youthinkofManassas— Leverettbradleyjr
