Do not go to Fueldners about it. I live in a large round tent in which there is a stove and am not deprived of anything. There is enough to do although we have as yet not met the enemy. The rumor is that we are to march back a ways in order to cover the railroad to Washington. We have marched around quite a bit in this vicinity without having done any good thereby, nor has it meant anything.
Many pranks happen in the regiment and there are many rascals there.
I am perfectly independent have done more for the sick than any other regimental physician and I do not pay any attention to the squabbles in the regiment. Siegel is sickly and he will not be able to accomlish much any more. The other regimental surgeons treat me with every consideration. I do not lag behind anyone and whatever I have at one time done, read or learned in medicine has come back to me. If we have a few battles and I have to do operations no other surgeon can take the first place away from me.