Show Grin trin all 1857 1851 a general Averill the union cavalry loader leader tellson tella an interesting story of if rat time he eversal ulyssess ulysses 8 G grant ra nt it was in 1857 while general averill win wai on it ahli ii yay way to join ill his regiment in new mexico exico Al when he got cot fourteen miles i or so HO west of st louis leave was given him to go BO buck back for a few days lie ile had to wait nearly an hour at kirkwood kirk wood for it a returning train mid and ile he passed tile time chatting with lieutenant craig anti and its his wife on tho the porch of their cottage craig cral wua was the commissary of 0 thu the expedition while they were sitting there thera thero there came up tho the country road which skirted the railway a s gilrie horseman horaBin iiii wearing a blue overcoat such duel as private soldiers wear und and a black felt list hat rather broken and worn wor n in hla his hall chunil lit he carried a oma small 11 whip which lio a applied to the potbellied pot bellied inara lie he was riding the anlin als mane and all ail it wati waa noticed were full fall of burs the brownish brownl dh red face of the stranger wits was cover covered L d with will a stubby sandy beard when he reached the irdle gate ho he lidl lial led ted dismounted and fastened to tile tho picket fence lieutenant craig went to meet him after an earnest conversation convers alion tile tho man unfastened hh animal antin jl slowly mo mounted anted a and nd rode away when th the a lieutenant returned to the porch ito he laverell lA Avon verill ll would you believe belie Vt that man bad ever belonged to the I 1 he army yes P we was tile the reply lie he might have been HI an old soldier p no to said craig I 1 mean as an aa and graduate of the mill military tary I 1 institute ti tuto ue look like it now lowi rejoined jo bed averill Averl ll who 18 he thais old ulysses grant ot of the fourth infantry the lieutenant answered lie ile wanted to be employ evi eu as aa commissary dark clerk to drive the beef MIN and issue tile the ratIO rations 1119 while we are crossing the plains I 1 J employ him U general a averill supplements this story or or of his bis first at tile the corn com 1 lug u g fj ion commander com mandor with arbot nn other her about bis last erato erate commander lee it was april 10 1861 after the tha firlow ali on fort sumter had bad dissipated the last hope of avoiding war 1 I 1 went to the tha war department tile the Gone generals rals story runs to mako make application for sus sui pension or of my furlough fur louch in the ante room I 1 mot met colonel kolonel Jo lonel robert hubert E lee his he wore an orld cost as the 1 was chilly t 1 1 we shook aut alk ci ayo h hands a bul bad d little t t 1 6 or 1 no conver od ion I 1 noticed that he be was troubled ile he could oot not stand still but kept sifting one foot and lien another as bhough they were cold his fuce face wore an impression ilon of intense d distress a and traces of tears were in his yes no 10 words word were needed to tell me w what it at wits was about to happen I 1 re the poignant monde of bereavement rea ies with which for the tha first time lime I 1 fully realized tile the peril which I 1 threatened the nation and a d dim I 1 in notion calne over me that social ties might inight be stronger than the govern merit when ciuch a man might bo be dl from hh bli allegiance |