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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
d to me that he was a senator, or member of the Upper House of Texas-just like your House of Lords, he said. He gets $5 a day whilst sitting, and is elected for four years. I was afterwards told that the Judge's term of service had expired. El Paso was his district. We struck water at 8.30 A. M., and bought a lamb for a dollar. We also bought some beef, which in this country is dried in strips by the sun, after being cut off the bullock, and it keeps good for any length of time. To cwe reached an open, undulating prairie, and halted at 10.30. Mr. Sargent and I killed and cooked the two chickens. He has done me the honor to call me a right good companion for the road. He also told me that at one time he kept an hotel at El Paso — a sort of half-way house on the overland route to Californiaand was rapidly making his fortune when the war totally ruined him. This accounts for his animosity to Uncle Abe. General Longstreet remembered both Sargent and the Judge perfectl