February 4.
Father has just left
here. He came down yesterday, and brought me an offer from Governor Andrew of
the colonelcy of his new black regiment . The Governor considers it a most
important command, and I could not help feeling, from the tone of his letter,
that he did me a great honor in offering it to me. My father will tell you some
of the reasons why I thought I ought not to accept it. If I had taken it, it
would only have been from a sense of duty, for it would have been anything but
an agreeable task.
SOURCE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Editor, Harvard
Memorial Biographies, Volume 2, p. 202
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