July 9th (?).
What glorious news about Vicksburg! — and I am particularly
glad to have that and Gettysburg come so near the 4th of July — a year ago on
that day Jimmy died in a farmhouse on the battlefield of Glendale. The little
fellow was very happy, — he thought the war would soon be over, that everything
was going right, and that everybody was as high-minded and courageous as
himself. For Mother's sake, I wish you had known him, — he was a good son and a
pure and wise lover of his Country, — with Father and Mother, I shall never
fill his place, nor in the Commonwealth either, I fear.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 275
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