Oxford Times, November 12, 1862
Letter from the 10th N.Y. Cavalry
Another Correspondent from the 10th NY Cavalry, Nov. 5, says:
We are now fairly encamped in Dixie, and our old friends in Old Chenango may depend that we are, as a company, ready to perform all the duties required of us, by our superior officer, but we expect to remain in this camp for two or three months to come, preparing to meet Stuart, or any other Rebel. As regards the face of the country there is no need that I write to you. I will only say that it presents all the desolation possible after an invading army, not a vestige of a fence or barn, and there is hardly a tree to be seen of any account. This is quite an extensive camp, including all the different defenses in and about Washington, full as extensive as anyone in your vicinity would imagine. You many take a position on the highest elevation possible, and look every way and your eye rests on a constant continuation of camps and fortifications. So far as taking Washington from the south side of the Potomac, it is an impossibility, for as you come from the south there is a continuation of fortifications and the one north commands the one south until you get to the Potomac. I think if one fort were taken they would only place themselves in greater danger by occupying it from the other forts which command it. The boys are all well.
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