Aug. 9, 1862.
I was very glad to
get your letters of Friday and Saturday, with photograph of Jimmy, all safe: it
is a great thing to have so good a likeness. I was out on Monday with Hooker
and Sedgwick's reconnaissance to Malvern Hill: early Tuesday morning we passed
over the Nelson Farm and not very far from the house where Jim was carried;
unfortunately the firing had already commenced in the front, and I could not
stop even a moment, but I saw the place and the roads, and shall have much more
chance of getting there again, if ever the opportunity offers.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 224
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