Willard's, Aug. 3, P. M.
It is a satisfaction to think that the President's order is
the result of your father's letter, — one immediate good out of Rob's death and
out of the splendid conduct of this regiment. Negroes at Port Hudson had been
treated just as barbarously, but it passed unnoticed by the Administration, — they
could not pass this over: I wish the President had said a rebel soldier shall
die for every negro soldier sold into slavery. He ought to have said so.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 289-90
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