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at she was a soldier's widow, and he expressed a willingness to appoint me at the next vacancy. But that vacancy would be a little time thence. My mother then made application to the Hon. Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire, who was supposed to be all-powerful in such matters with Jackson's administration. He replied that he would see to it that such appointment was given to the son of a soldier who was his own early friend. But here a difficulty arose. My much loved mother was a very devout Christian, believing in the doctrine of Calvin, and viewing unbelief as the unpardonable sin. I had been very religiously brought up. I had been taught in the Sunday school, and by her, until I was, for my years, fully conversant with the Scriptures. I had committed to memory the four Gospels, and once had recited them at call for a quotation in every part. I knew every word, not even excepting the first eighteen verses of the first chapter of Matthew, where everybody begat everybody else. That c