| Show IVoIselcy in Virginia My I attention was attracted to an article nlk Dispatch of the 8th which stated Hut Gen Yolseley in company with the Marquis of Hartington had visited the camp ol Gen Lee soon after the memora I Ve battle of Fredericksburg This party ci l English gentlemen with Rev Mr 1 Tilmer afterward Bishop of Alabama olacuardof honor consisting of four federate i officers made their way I sthe Rappahannock into Richmond r ± passing through the Northern lift On a very cold day they stopped rtnjfchers house footsore and weary 7ler i ere warmly welcomed and made as portable as circumstances permitted The next morning the party were con rered by carriages to the Patomac shore lie name of the Marquis and Col Leslie 31 I from Monegan were distinctly enunciated and remembered but not un til the note ol Gen Wolselev and the ar tide in The Di patch were read did Iwo I-wo who the quiet unassuming gentleman in gray tweeds was I stood this beside my father and gentleman and sketched the route 35 my father dictated for their journey lu standin l I with his compass in his Ilancl With his classical wellpoised head i > and the slightly hair r1 y r1yhair brushed luck oa k from the temple Wolselev looked a Vervicailer IDdehbly among men His picture is then EtaiTon 1 m > mind < I felt he must be one distinguished huong his fellows and now after the pse of twentythree when the years eyes ien of aU 1 Christians are tuned toward cn Wolseley and I am the j only sur tVOr fi f of that hvor happy family circle > learn through a note from Gen Vols Wolseley to a Iutliem lady and The DIII Dcqufc1 that the S uguishe gentleman Iooking who though was our nassum honored I t st Was in iacta S < a great soldier The turc of the pay while running the e and UClr subsequent release in flatters of lustory 011 their arrival ilalil tley sent itt of l my father a llUm M ofr nglsh paper mvina taus giving full ci theIr decant de-cant d te states Journemgs through the their In i acoutit ci impressions and rhich their capture and l tlbl release loapers by the only fortunes reac hp d of War of ha e orol Ioln the date of the battle e BELLE PLAIN Richmond Dispatch |
