Halltown, Aug. 9, 1864.
I've been ever so busy lately; I've hardly had time to sleep
or think, except Sunday, when I slept all day, having been up all the night
before. I am to have the 3d Brigade, — 1st Division in the New Cavalry Corps, —
nothing very stunning, I fear, but good enough for a beginner. General Merritt
has the Division. Everything is chaos here, but under Sheridan is rapidly
assuming shape. It was a lucky inspiration of Grant's or Lincoln's to make a
Middle Military Division and put him in command of it; it redeems Lincoln's
character and secures him my vote, if I have one.
It is exhilarating to see so many cavalry about and
to see things going right again.1
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1 July 26. Colonel Lowell was now released from
his service against guerrillas, by an order to report with his regiment to
General Wright in the Shenandoah Valley. They did duty with the Sixth Corps
until August 9th, when General Sheridan was given command of the new department,
and gave Lowell the “Provisional Brigade.”
After the regiment took the field, of course Mrs. Lowell
could no longer , stay with her husband, so returned to her parents in Staten
Island, and never saw him in life again.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 323, 457
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