21 Arlington Street, 22 August, 1863.
Many thanks for your letter of the 4th August. I grieve with
you for the loss of good young men in battle; and when taken from the families
of intimate friends or relatives, and such noble fellows as young Shaw, it
touches every heart.
Cabot did his duty well, and less blood will have been shed
by his mode of dealing with the mob than by using blank cartridges first; these
may be fired after the mob begins to run, not before. Governor Seymour is a
rebel, or as bad as a rebel, for he called the mob “my friends.” I hope
something may come out that will enable you to fix his treason upon him. This
outbreak at New York was expected by Roebuck here; the defeat of Meade, the
rising in New York, and the upset of the Washington government, were mentioned
by him to a friend as certain.
SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 2, p. 54-5
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