ON OCTOBER 4, 1862, GEORGE W. SALISBURY WROTE THE FOLLOWING TO E. B. MORGAN (WHILE ON "PAROLE" AT CAMP DOUGLAS IN CHICAGO):
CHICAGO OCT 4 62
HON. E. B. MORGAN
MY DEAR FRIEND
ALTHOUGH UNDER PROSPECTS NOT QUITE AS FLATTERING AS WHEN WE PROUDLY MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS OF AUBURN A FEW WEEKS AGO TO JOIN THE LAST GREAT ARMY OF THE NATION, YET OUR COURAGE IS JUST AS STRONG & OUR LOVE & AFFECTION FOR THE OLD FLAG IS STILL THE SAME, BUT IT IS RATHER HUMILIATING TO SEE THEM RAISE THE SACRED OLD BANNER EVERY MORNING & WE SITUATED UNDER THE PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES. I HAVE ONLY TIME TO WRITE A WORD NOW AS MORGAN ASKED ME TO DIRECT HIS LETTER. HE BY THE WAY IS ONE OF OUR BEST BOYS. JOHN TICE HAS LEFT US. WE ARE GETTING ALONG VERY WELL, HAVE PLENTY TO EAT & THAT IS GOOD & NOTHING TO DO.
IT IS UNHEALTHY HERE AS THE GROUNDS ARE VERY WET & MUDDY. I HAVE NOT BEEN VERY WELL SINCE WE HAVE BEEN HERE. OUR RAPID TRANSPORTATION & THE KIND WAS TO MUCH FOR ME. REMEMBER ME TO ALL MRS. AND MISS MORGAN. TELL HENRY I WILL WRITE.
YOURS TRULY, GEO. W. SALISBURY
THE REGIMENT WAS EXCHANGED SOON AFTER THAT AND THEY FOUGHT AT GETTYSBURG. ONE FOURTH OF THE REGIMENT DIED THERE. JOHNSON MCDOWELL HAD HIS LEG AMPUTATED. AFTER THE WAR, HE BECAME A DRUGGIST AT AURORA WITH GEORGE W. SALISBURY.
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