The last year has been the richest of my life. For the first
time in my life, I have been sure, every day, that I was doing good. I have
worked hard in the profession of the law, and gained cases for people, and they
have been very grateful to me, but I never knew with certainty whether I had
done them good or not. Now I know, every day I live, that I do good to those
poor fellows in our regiment, and I shall not give it up. I would not if I
could, and I could not if I would, with honor.
Then, as to my life, my experience at Winchester taught me that
is God's care, not mine. I took no care of it then myself. I was all the
time in front of the line; I went forward into the most exposed positions
possible. I saw a dozen men take aim at me. They did not hit me. I was as safe
there as I should have been at home. And I shall be so again, till God's time
comes to take my life. When that time comes, I am perfectly willing to give it
up.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 271
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