Saturday, July 18, 2015

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, September 28, 1864

Waynesboro, Sept. 28, 1864.

I expect orders to move very soon, — we have a way now of marching late into the night and of starting very early in the morning, which is not very pleasant.

I used to look forward to things somehow — now I don't look forward, but all the old pleasure of looking forward seems to be stirred in with things as they come along. I can't explain what I mean, but the difference is immense.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 351

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