Rest assured that the Copperheads of the North have no friends here in the army, Huddard tells his father. Rumors abound that the regiment will be ordered back to Ohio to enforce the Conscription act but these rumors do not come to fruition. Huddard is further disappointed when he is unable to procure a furlough. News of the army of the Potomac’s movements in the early spring give Huddard excitement. We begin to think that we will yet winter in Ohio, he informs his home on May 7. But on the May 21, Huddard laments that the news from Hooker’s army is not the best. Drilling, guard duty, and the construction of breast works keep Huddard’s mind of the recent failures in the eastern theatre.