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we will rise in our tears and go to our places, having 

 conquered ourselves. Long ago I felt like a peasant in a 

 country overrun with soldiers, and saw nothing but carnage 

 and danger. Since then I have learned at least that some 

 soldiers in the field die nobly, and that all are summoned 

 there for a cause. 



I am very sorry for India, and for you and poor Mrs. 

 Pomeroy. She had a stake in him that none of us could 

 have. 



To Miss CAY. 



Glenlair, 28th September 1857. 



My dear friend Pomeroy died at Ghazeepore about 

 1st August, from overwork and forced marches. He was a 

 civilian, and appointed assistant magistrate at Azinghur. 

 He and the rest of the civilians proceeded thither with about 

 400 men. When they got there they fought about 

 2000 insurgents in two feet of water, and beat them off 

 three times. Pomeroy volunteered to take in a wounded 

 man (Lieut. Lewis, 65 N". I.) to Ghazeepore, when no one 

 else would venture to go. He stayed there a few days, but 

 was unwell. Then he went back to his post at Azinghur 

 for about a week. On the news of the Dinapore mutiny 

 they were all ordered in, and made a forced march on 

 Ghazeepore, forty miles. 



He died soon after getting in. 



Of all the men I have known he was the most likely 

 to have done something for India. I never knew a man 

 more able to see his way through difficulties, more respected 

 by men of all classes, or more determined that duty should 

 be done whatever might happen. We have one comfort for 

 ourselves, that few men have made themselves more open to 

 their friends, so that many men may receive something of 

 his spirit, though he is cut off before strangers could take 

 example by his deeds. 



To E. B. LITCHFIELD, Esq. 



Glenlair, 15th October 1857. 

 I was glad S. sent me the letter. Eemember that 



