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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1857. (search)
eat humbugs, gives credit to the men. November 10. You thought, walking in those splendid autumn woods, it would be far preferable to die there than to die shut up in a sick-chamber with all the paraphernalia of sickness about you. Yes, I think so; but perhaps the idea as it presents itself to my mind, of a sudden, painless death in full activity, even in battle, is not so pleasant for you to think of. To me it seems the most desirable form in which to meet it. camp Benton, November 20, 1861. The principal discomfort here arises from the impossibility of being neat. I was never fastidious, but cannot reconcile myself to the estate of things here and to our crowded condition. We have eleven or twelve in tents which were made to hold eight. I shall break off, for the crowd of men and clatter of voices in this smoky tabernacle of ours seem to make the letter unfit to send to you, the pattern of fastidious neatness. I wonder if any of the smoke or other odors goes in