Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: May 29, 1862

First letter from Rob since the battle. “Quite a fight” he calls it. A bullet struck his watch and made a dent in it, else his stomach would have received it. As it was, his thigh was bruised. The papers give an account of very severe fighting, fatiguing and harassing. The Second behaved very well and covered the retreat. Dear fellows!

SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 27-8

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