Showing posts with label Armory Square Military Hospital. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, February 1, 1863

Boston,1 Feb. 4, 1863.

I am very glad to see that the Negro Army Bill has got so well through the House, — Governor Andrew is going to try a Regiment in Massachusetts. I am afraid he is too sanguine — it would be wiser to start with a smaller number, to be increased to a regiment in South Carolina, Texas, or Louisiana. The blacks here are too comfortable to do anything more than talk about freedom. I hope you are not too comfortable; comfort is so “demoralizing.”

1 Relative positions were now reversed, as Captain Lowell had been detailed to raise and drill the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, and his mother had been summoned to Washington, to the bedside of her daughter Anna, a nurse in Armory Square Military Hospital, who had fallen ill.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 233-4, 413