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