Harrison's Landing, July 27, '62.
. . . It is painful
to think that you were still in suspense about dear Jimmy. George will have
told you, before this, all that he learned from the surgeon who was with him.
Nelson's Farm is still far within the enemy's line, but I hope that we may move
in that direction sometime. I am glad the little fellow was not moved to
Richmond, merely to die and to be buried where we never could find him — he
would have felt it. Palfrey told me about his taking Jimmy's sword — it was a
sacred thing to him, and he carried it through some heavy marches — he was
crying as he talked of it.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 223-4
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