13th. I wrote Horace a day or two since, giving an account
of Gen. Stevens' death from your letter, saying if it possessed any interest
for the public he might give it to Godwin of the Post, and this morning
I saw it published there.1 I am glad, because so little has been
said of this brave man by any of the New-York papers except the Tribune. I
have written Mrs. Stevens a letter of sympathy for her loss. I wanted her to
know, and to feel, that the Nation weeps for her illustrious dead. I wrote her
I took the liberty of offering her my sympathy, because personally I felt her
husband's loss most deeply for his kindness to my son.
Mr. Benedict is below in the library with Hunt. His brother,
who was taken prisoner some time ago, but recently released, has been appointed
Colonel of one of the new N. Y. regiments. Our Governor I hear excuses his want
of consideration for you, by saying it would have been different if you had
belonged to a Conn. Regiment, so I suppose you are considered as belonging to
New-York. Good-bye, my own dear son. God bless you always. I thank him for your
perservation. Love from all to you, and kind words to Major Elliott.
Lovingly,
Mother.
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1 N. Y. Evening Post of Sept. 12th, 1862.
SOURCE: William Chittenden Lusk, Editor, War Letters
of William Thompson Lusk, p. 196-7
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