Rob started to go
back today at 7 A.M. and now his visit seems almost like a dream. A thing I had
been longing for for eight months passed so quickly! Well, all human affairs
are the same, the unhappy moments are long and the happy ones short. That's all
bosh, though, for they all seem short to me. Rob is very much dissatisfied with
the little prospect of fighting they seem to have and has two plans on hand for
leaving the regiment. One to enlist in the regular cavalry, if he cannot get a
commission, and the other to try to get a place on Fremont's staff. Mr. Gay has
written to him to ask him, and I have little doubt of his saying yes, for
Mother's and Father's sakes.
SOURCE: William
Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell,
p. 27
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