Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Charles E. Perkins, October 17, 1864

Cedar Creek, Oct. 17, 1864.

I hope and trust and believe that you are doing all you can for Lincoln, — and I believe that McClellan's election would send this country to where Mexico and South America are. Do what you can to prevent it.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 362

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Charles Elliott Perkins, December 7, 1861

Camp, Sixth Cavalry, East Of Capitol,

Washington, Dec. 7, '61.

By Jove, old fellow, I wish I could see you for an hour or two. I hardly know myself in this new style of life, and though I fancy it much, I still see everything “through a glass darkly.” I feel as though I were in a dream, and positively yearn for some old fact, like yourself, occasionally.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 219