Woodman, Clarence E.: Wilmington, Del(aware) to Monsignor (Robert Seton: Jersey City, New Jersey), 1895 February 15

He thanks Seton for his kind letter and begs him not to forget his young brother at Mass. As for the Colonial Wars matter, Woodman does not think there were such sharply drawn lines between commissioned and non-commissioned officers then as there must be now. In his own family one brother was a sergeant in the same Company of which another brother was Captain. The sergeant was his great great grandfather. He thinks a private then was worth a brigadier now.