Excerpt from Harriet Ward Foote Hawley March 12, 1862. By the next week you will be at work on Fort Pulaski I suppose. Your last letter was intensely interesting, but it amused me to see you scold father and 'all your northern correspondents, ' for being low-spirited and declare that you had never been happier in your life than since November 7th; when your letter before that had been so terribly blue - the most so of anything I had read in a great while. The fact is, you're pretty much like the rest of the world. Every ...
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Excerpt from Harriet Ward Foote Hawley March 12, 1862. By the next week you will be at work on Fort Pulaski I suppose. Your last letter was intensely interesting, but it amused me to see you scold father and 'all your northern correspondents, ' for being low-spirited and declare that you had never been happier in your life than since November 7th; when your letter before that had been so terribly blue - the most so of anything I had read in a great while. The fact is, you're pretty much like the rest of the world. Every body loses hope a little sometimes, only one-half the world [like you] as soon as it is over declares it is no such thing, and they always knew everything would turn out right. The otherhalf won't own that they feel any better when it is all over and know things are going to be very bad.' March 19, 1862. Our victories are coming along pretty fast now: Island No. Iq, and Newbern yester day. We are getting to think the papers very stupid when there is no victory. This winter she was in especially miserable health but she says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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