Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, July 21, '61.
I sometimes doubt
whether I have done quite the right thing myself, indeed I have of late begun
to doubt seriously whether I ever did anything right. I have a very good chance
to “loafe and view my own soul” just now. I am here recruiting and do not pick
up men very fast. It is dreadfully tedious — but not to be despised as an
experience. I am now in the "Western Reserve" and among men who are
awake to the position and rather ahead of the Administration. It is quite a
relief after Pennsylvania, where one still hears of nothing but plunder and
party lines.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 215-6
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