February 14, '63.
General Burnside
came to see mother a day or two since. He spoke with utmost respect and love of
Joe. He said that he was one of the few officers that “rose” in the fight; that
his coolness, valor, and sagacity kept pace; and that he would have been
necessarily a distinguished officer. Dear boy! I see his calm, sweet, dead
face, and I think of his lovely life, “wrapped sweet in his shroud, the hope of
humanity not yet extinguished in him.”
SOURCE: Edward Cary, George William Curtis, p.
162
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