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I fear I shall hardly recognize it if I return. I have spent a good deal of time in hunting up in Georgetown & vicinity and Boston and vicinity, the wives and mothers of men of my Company, and of other companies, and I mean to do more of it in Philadelphia and Washington. These women folks are overjoyed to see my wife and myself and we talk to them of their husbands and sons, give them their addresses, etc.

  At the time of the great Peace Jubilee at Boston, I thought a great deal of you and have much you would have enjoyed going [strike] being there.   All who attended pronounced it a very imposing affair, and a great success in every way.  I fully intended to be present but could not make my arrangements to visit Boston until after it was all over.   While there, however, I saw the Coloseum and got a number of stereoscopic views of the building both when filled and empty.   I tried to get a full and good [underline] account of the affair, to send you, but did not succeed.   The Springfield Republican has as good a concise newspaper report as any that was printed.
   The meeting of the ex-officers and men of the Army of the Potomac, for the organization of a Society, came off at the Steinway Hall in New York on the 5th to 6th of July.  I was present, and the account in the Army  & Navy Journal is an excellent report of the meeting.     There was a hard fight over the Presidency, McClellan & Meade being the original candidates, with much strong feeling exhibited by their backers [underline] - while Hooker & Burnside had their friends also.   The anti-McClellanites were finally obliged to sacrifice Meade & their other favorites and unite upon Sheridan, who was accordingly elected.