Centreville, July 26, '63.
I cannot help having a strong hope that Beauregard is
mistaken in supposing Rob Shaw killed. If he is dead, they've killed one
of the dearest fellows that ever was. Harry, I felt thankful that you and he
were out of the Second at Gettysburg, — I thought of you both as surely safe, I
had always felt of Rob too, that he was not going to be killed.
It was very noble of him ever to undertake the Fifty-Fourth,
but he had great satisfaction in it afterwards, both of himself and from his
friends' satisfaction, — I believe he would rather have died with it than with
the old Second. Will it not comfort his Mother a little to feel that he was
fighting for a cause greater than any National one?
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles
Russell Lowell, p. 285
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