Maryland Heights, September 30, 1862.
We have received,
to-day, pretty conclusive evidence of the death of Major Savage; we have also
heard that Quincy's chance for life is very slim. Hasn't the mortality among
our old officers been dreadful? I cannot bear to think of it. If we lose
Colonel Andrews, there will be very little left of the old Second.
To-morrow I go up
on the mountain in charge of a large fatigue party to fell timber. I imagine
there is going to be another fort built there.
SOURCE: Charles
Fessenden Morse, Letters Written During the Civil War, 1861-1865,
p. 95
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