:02:01
For they´re collecting such a force
here that an attack would be insane:
:02:06
The Massachusetts men
passed through this morning:
:02:09
How grand it is to meet the men
from all the states:::
:02:12
:::ready to fight for their country:::
:02:15
:::as the old fellows did
in the Revolution:
:02:18
But this time we must make it
a whole country:::
:02:21
::: for all who live here,
so that all can speak:
:02:27
Before this war began:::
:02:29
:::many of my regiment
had never seen a Negro:
:02:32
But now the roads are choked
with the dispossessed:
:02:37
We fight for men and women
whose poetry is not yet written:::
:02:41
:::but which will presently be
as enviable and as renowned as any:
:02:47
Last night we heard
of yet another defeat:::
:02:50
:::but we are not disheartened:
:02:52
I am honoured to be part
of such a splendid company:
:02:55
They have made me captain,
of which I am enormously proud:
:02:59
You would think it strange
to see me giving orders to 100 men:::
:03:02
:::most of whom are older than I am:
:03:05
Thank you for sending
my volume of Emerson:
:03:08
His words come home to me like truth:
:03:11
´´A deep man, ´´ he says, ´´believes
that the evil eye can wither:::
:03:16
::: that the heart´s
blessing can heal:::
:03:18
:::and that love
can overcome all odds: ´´
:03:24
My dearest love to Father:
:03:26
Your son, Robert:
:03:53
Fire!