Camp Brightwood, June 17, '63.
I have been expecting orders for some days past — but the
raid into Pennsylvania seems to be blowing over — and they haven't come. I hope
Hooker will seek to get a battle out of Lee at once — he will never have a better chance, with the
six months' troops called for; he will be able to reap the fruits of a victory
if he gains one, and a defeat would not be very disastrous.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 258
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