HEADQUARTERS,
TWELFTH CORPS D'ARMEE,
April 19, 1863.
My Dear Clara:
I received a
beautiful bouquet this morning from Mary. The flowers are all from the
President's garden. It is beautiful. The flowers are arranged according to
color in three rows - red, white, and blue—with a fine japonica at the apex. I
send you two or three samples.
I thought Mary would
remember me. I take back all I have said unless she has sent one to all the
other generals.
I do not think I was
as happy over this bouquet of rare flowers from the wife of the President as I
was over a single blue forget-me-not received by me while in Albany from a
young country girl.
Yours
affectionately,
H. W. SLOCUM.
SOURCE: New York
(State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and
Chattanooga, In Memoriam : Henry Warner
Slocum, 1826-1894, p. 72
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