Near Ripon, Sept. 9, 1864.
I have stepped into a rather trying position now, — the
regular Brigade is hard to run; there are many prides and prejudices, — and
then, too, much more is expected from an officer commanding it, than from one
commanding a little patched-up affair like my last command. However, I shan't worry
at all, but shall try to do what I can. I don't think I now care at all about
being a Brigadier-General. I am perfectly satisfied to be a Colonel, if
I can always have a brigade to command; — that's modest, isn't it?
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 337-8
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