Sunday, November 2, 2014

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Charles Elliott Perkins, July 21, 1861

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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