Washington, April 29, '61.
I have just got the promise from Cameron of a 2d Lieutenancy
— don't yet know in what branch. Hope to get into the Flying Artillery or
Artillery of some sort.
I have had no letters from home for seventeen days and do
not know how Mother feels. I am sure that she will agree with me that, come
what may, the army must hereafter be a more important power in the State than
hitherto —and if Southern gentlemen enlist, Northern gentlemen must also. I
send her and Father my best love. Am living here in her two flannel shirts and
six collars — and Grandmother's neck-cloth — no trunk, Mother's bag.
I need not tell her that I am not in the least bloodthirsty
— and not nearly so hopeful about the good results of this war as our
Massachusetts Volunteers — but I believe that it will do us all much real good
in the end.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 204
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