To Milroy From James Fraser Nov 4th 1863

              311 F. Strech
 
Washington D. C.
 
Nov. 4th, 1863
 
Dear General

 
	In fulfillment of my promise to write  
to you, and promising that a line from me, eminating  
as it does from your recent “Headquarters,” will not  
prove altogether unacceptable to you.  I proceed to make  
that promise good, altho in truth, there has been little  
of occurrence worthy of note since you have left us.

 
	The Colonels Court, with that characteristic  
regard for their personal care and health, which has  
herd of no evinced itself on sundry occasions, as  
well as a magnanimous feeling towards those  
unfortunates who have been summoned to meet  
“Bombusters face to face,” have again adjourned  
over for a week; and I am to all intents and  
purposes a widower; the Colonel having left for