This has been a sad
day for the three houses that stand on the Nahant shore, with the moon looking
so calmly down on them, the moon who knew all Saturday night and yet wouldn't
tell. Richard Carey is dead and his poor young wife has been crying bitterly
all the afternoon, left with her one little girl to whom she has taught her
father's name and kept him always in her mind. She had her trunk packed and was
much excited this morning, expecting to go soon to nurse him, when came a
telegram to her Father from Col. Andrews, saying: "Captains Carey, Abbott,
Williams and Goodwin, and Lieut. Perkins were found dead on the field of
battle. Send your son on for their bodies."1
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1 This fight was at Cedar Mountain.
SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The
Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 32
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