Excerpt from Letters: From Two Brothers Serving in the War for the Union to Their Family at Home in West Cambridge, Mass
These dams are built across the Potomac, and raise the river so that it fills the canal; if they should break this dam it would let the water down some ten or twelve feet, and of course stop navigation on the canal.
Well, I have smelt gunpowder, and been under fire, and roughed it with the army long enough to judge a little what a soldier's life is, and certainly it is a hard one, yet I think I can stand it, and must say I like it pretty well.
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