Camp Brightwood, June 3, 1863.
The change from the camp to the field (we are now, so far as
work and life go, to be counted in the field, though there seems to me a good
deal of “sham” about it) is a very critical one for a regiment, it is so
important to start picket duty aright, so hard to make men understand that the
only way to keep tolerably clean is to keep perfectly clean, so hard to get new
officers to keep the proper line between their men and themselves. I am going
to try the experiment, too, of taking off my camp guard and giving my “pet
lambs” a chance to wander where they please, — punishing them, of course, if
found outside of camp. I am not sure how it will work.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 252-3
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