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r his friends to lose him .... Tell——not to feel anxious, and don't you feel anxious, dear, about anybody. It is not our business. August 1. Everything that comes about Rob shows his death to have been more and more completely that which every soldier and every man would long to die; but it is given to very few, for very few do their duty as Rob did. I am thankful they buried him with his niggers. They were brave men, and they were his men. Colonel Lowell married on the 31st of October, 1863. He has left a daughter, Carlotta Russell Lowell, born after his death. The season of 1863-64 was one of great tranquillity. Mrs. Lowell was able to accompany her husband to the army, and to remain at Vienna for several months; and though Colonel Lowell was constantly employed in the distasteful service to which he had been assigned, it was not till midsummer that he found again the opportunity of distinguishing himself in the open field. In July, 1864, he took a conspicuous