General Remarks for June

I heard from home but twice during the month, the latest being 5th inst.  The news was as good as could be desired.  All well & prosperous.  Crops were much in need of rain in May till a rain fell & again at the time of last writing the growth of crops was retarded by the dry weather that continued.  The negro troops from VA that we heard would follow & relieve us came & having after long waiting, disembarked at Brazos Santiago & after suffering severely by the short supply of water, they have been sent to various places, but still are we not relieved.  Our hopes have often been high by reason of rumors & statements in circulation most of which had more or less shadow of probability, but thus all seems to have been mere illusions, for we see no more prospect of going now than was two or three weeks ago.  It seems orders were issued to discharge first those troops mustered in on or before Oct 1st.  By some blunders & ignorance or callousness on the part of somebody--our first Col. Lewis among them--we come in the 2d class--those mustered after.  I have become reconciled to the hardship of the idleness & discomfort of such a way of living & wasting so many of the best days of our lives, for the simple reason that fretting will not help us.  Our latest papers are of 19th. N.O. & 10th N.Y.  Gold recps at about 1.35 & fluctuates but little.  We continue at Peace with foreign powers..