He complains about Lord Raglan's 'confouned comfortable white house' near Sebastopol, 'the bane of our army'; if he had lived in camp, thousands of lives might have been spared; Burgoyne has always favoured an assault, not 'engineering and artillerying'; an attack may occur when it is not expected; 'There is no folly too great for us to commit and no amount of hard fighting we wont go thro' to redeem it'; Kinglake's pony, fit and well, is ridden by the doctor