Warren, Aug. 8, '61.
I should think the hardships of the poor wives would
interfere more or less with recruiting — I hope it does. — What will you do
with ten more regiments of families to support next winter?1 . . . I am glad you are getting old enough to
feel the beauty of youth, — I have felt it for some years — I have a perfect
longing for young things. I am afraid the Colonel will object to many of my
recruits that they are too youthful, but I cannot help the tendency.
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1 Mrs. Lowell was carrying out a plan for
supplying army work to the wives of soldiers.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 217-8, 406
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