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eks : Then there was a settled anxiety almost hopelessness; nothing seemed to have been gained and nobody could forebode whether the war would last one year or ten. Now there is such a glare of victory that we only count the months or perhaps weeks until Richmond and New Orleans shall have submitted. All the great load of anxiety seems to have been lifted in one instant from the public mind. The difficulty is, that with it goes the sense of immediate responsibility to the slaves. March 26 Thomas Earle, a friend of ours, with whom I went to the Adirondack a few years ago, is a soldier in the Twenty-Fifth Regiment and now home on furlough. He was here on Sunday and gave Mary a good account of everything. On the day of the battle he put Conway's book The rejected Stone over his heart, another book the other side, and his tin plate in the middle. Some of the others laughed at him, but a rifle ball struck him just over the heart, glanced from Conway's book and out again wi