Franklin, Pennsylvania, July 15, '61.
I am just in from a
ride of thirty-four miles — have averaged over twenty-five for the last eight
days. Whether you fancy my soldiering or not, you would be glad to see how hard
I am getting in this mountain air with thumping about on a country horse. We
have about twenty recruits secured — a very good beginning: now that a nucleus
is formed, I think they will collect rapidly.
I shall start on
Wednesday for Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio: this is the Western Reserve, and I
believe is settled by Yankees. I must say I shall be glad to escape from the
Democratic atmosphere of Pennsylvania; party lines are as strong as ever they
were in Franklin — it is said there are nearly one hundred subscribers to the “Day
Book” here. As I am now a “National” man and forbidden to talk politics, I
listen in silence — but it is not pleasant.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 214
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