The Heart of a Soldier As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett
The Heart of a Soldier As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett
Pickett, La Salle Corbell, 1848-1931
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As ever, Your Soldier. Greencastle, Pa., June 24, 1863. 83 Digitized by Google XVI Lines Penned on the Road to Gettysburg WE crossed the Potomac on the 24th at Williamsport and went into bivouac on the Maryland side, from which place I sent my Lady-Love a long letter and some flowers gathered on the way. We then went on to Hagerstown, where we met A. P. Hill's Corps, which had crossed the river farther down. From Hagerstown I sent to the same and only Lady- Love another letter, which was not on...ly freighted with all the adoration and devotion of her Soldier's heart, but contained messages from the staff and promises to take care of him and bring him safely back to her. We made no delay at Hagerstown, but pass- ing through in the rear of Hill's Corps moved on up Cumberland Valley and bivouacked at Greencastle, where the most homesick letter of all yet written was sent to — ^well, guess whom this time. Why, to the same Lady-Love, the 84 Digitized by Google THE HEART OF A SOLDIER sweetest, loveliest flower that ever blossomed to bless and make fairer a beautiful world — for it is beautiful, betokening in its loveliness noth- ing of this deadly strife between men who should be brethren of a great and common cause, as they are the heritage of a great and common country.
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