Saturday, June 3, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, April 16, 1863

April 16.

Up to three days ago, good old John Quincy was getting on nicely, but lockjaw came upon him and today he was buried. He never murmured at his fate, but his religious conversation made everybody about him cheerful. I very much regretted the impossibility of having him under my immediate care.

Our men keep remarkably well out here, this kind of life exactly suits them.

SOURCE: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 43, October, 1909—June, 1910: February 1910. p. 389

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