Camp Near Stafford C. H., Va.,
February 12, 1863.
Tuesday I rode over with Major Mudge to the First
Massachusetts Cavalry; we found our friends there well and glad to see us. Lieut.-Col.
Curtis has been laid up with a lame leg from a horse's kick, but was nearly
right again. The same morning, Captain Shaw went off to go to work on his new
command, the First Massachusetts Blacks. He has a hard piece of work before
him, but I hope he will be entirely successful. The greatest doubts in my mind
are whether the Northern negroes will enlist; I don't put much faith in them
myself.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 120-1
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