Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, June 10, 1863

Camp Brightwood, June 10, 1863.

The way in which men are put into action the first time is so important, at any rate in cavalry, — I am very anxious my fellows should be started right, and not checked up just where they should be spurring.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 256