(To September, 1865)
Mr. Miller’s notes of his life at the front tell of many letters and visits from anxious mothers and other relatives who sought information of wounded soldiers. It was one of his greatest pleasures to do what he could for these inquirers. Once he wrote:
“I have never felt happier than today when receiving the blessings of a dear old Scotch woman, who came here to seek her son. We have in this office a list of all the patients in the Winchester hospitals, and then we take a list of all who pass through from there on their way to Baltimore and other hospitals. We found that he had passed through two days since. She heaped blessings on our heads for our kindness to her boy, for we had fed him on his way through. Leaving some gifts for her other boy to be forwarded to him – he is well and at the front – she turned her feet to find the wounded son.”
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