camp Near Darnestown, August 31, 1861.
If you have a good map, you can see our present position
just on Seneca Creek, two miles from Darnestown. We were ordered to Darnestown,
but there is no water nearer than this point. We are within striking distance
of Washington, and also vis-à-vis
of Leesburg, about.
I wish you to buy, and forward by express, a large coffee-roaster,
which will roast thirty or forty pounds at a time. There is a kind, I am
told. It would be of immense advantage to us.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 90
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