He displayed the same patience, the same desire not to be troublesome that so many badly wounded do.
"Letty asked me to say that a zouave of the 5th Regiment, a Mr.
Cortlandt, was also killed.

So many, many people I knew or had heard of have been killed or have died of disease since the war began.

One sees a great many people wearing mourning in the city--crape is so common, on sword-hilts, on arms, veils, gowns, bonnets.
"Letty made the loveliest bride you or I ever beheld.

Usually brides do not look their best, but Letty was the most charming, radiant, bewildering creature--and so absurdly young--as though suddenly she had dropped a few years and was again beginning that girlhood which I sometimes thought she had never had.
"Dr.Benton is a darling.

He looks twenty years younger and wears a monocle! They are back from their honeymoon, and are planning to offer their services to the great central hospital at Philadelphia.
"Dear, your letter breaking the news to me that Marye Mead was burned when the cavalry burned Edmund Ruffin's house was no news to me.