Camp, May 30, '63.
As soon as you are filled to a minimum, shut down on
all but first-rate men. I do not want another “scalawag” to come into the regiment; they
will fight, but they are an infernal nuisance.
I was yesterday required to report officially how soon this
Battalion could take the field. I reported two hours, — but better not before
June 20th. I do not think they mean to move us, but they are in constant dread
of a rapid move towards the upper Potomac; apparently one whole cavalry
division of the Army of the Potomac moved to Bealetown (below Warrenton
Junction) on Thursday.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 250-1
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