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began, and which God alone knows when, & how it will end.
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The above was a part of a letter written to me to inform the
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money of the news received of the capture of the Mass troops
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in the city of Baltimore the 19th of April 1861.
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Letters from North Oxford, Mass.
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them safely at Head quarters. I know no doubt
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but it has all been properly done. A boy for the
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25th I had delivered to Capt. Alcorn's co.
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and heard with much satisfaction the gratification
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it afforded the various recipients. The men
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were looking attentively, and I read not till
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the 25th that it is a line regiment from its Cal
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& Chaplain down. Necessary to his just cause
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for pride.
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It seems now to the expression in your
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excellent letter which I have always
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heard - one can believe nothing, shall not
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a little of your own - from the first. I have
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decided that a sense of wrong concentrates in regard
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to nothing here. I should discourage the efforts of our
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soldiers at home - it was this
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and only this which can give one courage
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to proceed. The worthy ladies of your city
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(usually my superiors) are not in the
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with which they seem perfectly familiar
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knowing so little. -
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Dear sir, I have
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some time to reply. It is said that our army
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is sufficient. Still this may be or it may not
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be to gaining - and so far as New England troops are
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concerned it may be that in these days of illness
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they have really no pressing needs - but in the
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