Quartermaster Genl. Meigs
inspected our Post day before
yesterday and this evening we
hear the news of his son’s
death—a young man of
most brilliant promise, one
whom Noyes spoke to me of
in connection with “the
perspective.” , at the Point. He was killed by bush
whackers, in the Shenandoah. * * Mr. Buck says my effort
in connection with 25th.
Cavalry is to be successful.
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Father seems to be enjoying
himself very much. We heard Lucrezia Borgia
together at the Academy on
Wednesday evening last. Vincent Colyer was up
to see me a few days since.
