staten Island, April 18, 1861.
My Dear Father,
— When you get home you will hear why I am not here to receive you. Badly as I
feel at going before you come, it seems the only way, unless I give it up
altogether, which you could not wish any more than I. You shall hear from me as
often as I possibly can write, if only a few words at a time. We go to-morrow
afternoon, and hope to be in Washington the following day. I want very much to
go; and with me, as with most of the others, the only hard part is leaving our
friends. God bless you all, dear father. Excuse the shortness of this farewell
note.
SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard
Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 196
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