Washington, Oct. 7.
After dinner to-day we said good-bye to Dr. Bacon, now Surgeon of the 7th Connecticut, and he left in the night we suppose, with the regiment, to join the second great land and naval expedition for the southern coast.
“Dr. Bacon..,left in the night we suppose, with the regiment..,” — Woolsey family letters; Eliza to husband Joseph Howland.
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