...robably pay you a short visit—till I am better. He was quite feeble during the most of the summer, but in August grew rapidly stronger. On the 17th of August, at the house of his uncle, Gerritt Smith , in Peterborough, New York, he received a letter from his brother David, who said, I am now Colonel of the regiment called Birney's Zouaves. If you can get your mother's permission, you