camp Hicks, Near Frederick, December 29, 1861.
Dear Father, —
I wish you a happy and prosperous New Year, and I wish that I could hope to do
something to help make it so. But, out here in my frontier helplessness, I can
only receive favors, not do them.
It will, I trust, be a happy day for all of us when the
regiment has lived its life and done its work, and can return in peace. Such
is my dream, though it seems distant.
I have just read the capitulation and surrender of Mason and
Slidell. Seward's letter is masterly, his conclusion dignified and perhaps
just. His forbearance to hold on to them because they are not worth it is a
stroke. On the whole, I am well pleased. What do you think of it?
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 183
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