Friday, November 21, 2014

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, July 27, 1862

Harrison's Landing, July 27, '62.

. . . It is painful to think that you were still in suspense about dear Jimmy. George will have told you, before this, all that he learned from the surgeon who was with him. Nelson's Farm is still far within the enemy's line, but I hope that we may move in that direction sometime. I am glad the little fellow was not moved to Richmond, merely to die and to be buried where we never could find him — he would have felt it. Palfrey told me about his taking Jimmy's sword — it was a sacred thing to him, and he carried it through some heavy marches — he was crying as he talked of it.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 223-4

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