Saturday, December 13, 2014

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: August 11, 1862

Nahant. After that comparatively long time of inaction it begins again, and near home this time. We get the news late here, and we were at the "Sanitary" when Eugenia Mifflin told of a battle in the Shenandoah Valley, in which she said Major Savage and Captain Abbott were killed and Sam Quincy taken prisoner. Rob's safe, as I was sure from the beginning, for being a Staff Officer, any accident would have been reported. There are only two or three officers untouched in the Second, Richard Carey, Dan Oakey and many others being among the wounded.

SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 32

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