Camp Near Centreville, July 26, '63.
You will write me, I know, all you learn about the
Fifty-Fourth. I see that General Beauregard believes Bob Shaw was killed in a
fight on the 18th, — I hope and trust he is mistaken. He will be a great loss
to his regiment and to the service, — and you know what a loss he will be to
his family and friends. He was to me one of the most attractive men I ever
knew, — he had such a single and loyal and kindly heart: I don't believe he
ever did an unkind or thoughtless act without trying to make up for it
afterwards — Effie says he never did (I mean she has said so, of course I have
not heard from her since this news) — in that, he was like Jimmy. It cannot be
so hard for such a man to die — it is not so hard for his friends to lose him.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles
Russell Lowell, p. 284
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