March 25.
If the success of
the Fifty-fourth gives you so much pleasure, I shall have no difficulty in
giving you good news of it whenever I write. Everything goes on prosperously.
The intelligence of the men is a great surprise to me. They learn all the
details of guard duty and camp service infinitely more readily than most of the
Irish I have had under my command. There is not the least doubt that we shall
leave the State with as good a regiment as any that has marched.
SOURCE: Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Volume
2, p. 203-4
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