Off at last. I gave Arthur all that I had, money, etc., gave
him a good breakfast with me, took note for J. D., borrowed $20 of Captain Fox,
Thirty-fourth Massachusetts, gave Arthur $10, Sedgwick $10, Arthur my
watch-chain. He is very well. Twenty other officers go. Go down to boat in
ambulances of boards. An order comes from Colonel Ould. I cannot go. It
is a bitter, bitter blow after getting so far. I must go back to prison. Ould
says General Walker was not sent up. There is some other reason, I think. This
is a sad disappointment. My heart sinks at coming back here. I must wait
patiently and believe He doeth all things for the best. Poor mother, if
she only knew!
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 133-4
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