Letters today from Rob for Mother and me, dated 11th and
16th instant. He seems rather blue, owing, I suppose, to his doing nothing, and
the feeling that at Corinth and Yorktown laurels may be won. We hear today that
Banks pushes on and has occupied New Market. I hope for the boys' sake that
they may be in action before the war is finished, for they would feel
dreadfully to come home without seeing a battle. George read his new lecture
this eve, “The Way of Peace,” and it is splendid.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 25
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