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with a seat not laid down in any of the textbooks, and kept up a lively and appropriate conversation at the most serious parts of the ceremony.
“Wall, Miss Blunt, how do you git along?
Do you think you will stan‘ it out?”
To which Miss Blunt would reply in shrill tones: “Wall, I feel kinder tired, but I guess I'll hold on, and ride clear round, if I can.”
And, to do her justice, she did hold on, and I thought, as aforesaid, she would break her neck.
Then there was his Excellency, the Vice-President, certainly one of the most ordinary-looking men that ever obtained the suffrages of his fellow citizens.
Also little Governor Sprague, a cleanly party, who looked very well except that there is something rather too sharp about his face.
Likewise were there many womenkind in ambulances discreetly looking on. The cavalry came first, headed by the valiant Kilpatrick, whom it is hard to look at without laughing.
The gay cavaliers themselves presented their usual combination of Gypsy and Don Cossack.
Then followed the artillery and the infantry.
Among the latter there was a good deal of difference; some of the regiments being all one could wish, such as the Massachusetts 20th, with Abbot at its head; while others were inferior and marched badly.
Thereafter Kill-cavalry (as scoffers call him) gave us a charge of the 500, which was entertaining enough, but rather mobby in style.
And so home, where we did arrive quite late; the tough old General none the worse.
Headquarters Army of Potomac March 1, 1864
. . . For some days General Humphreys has been a mass of mystery, with his mouth pursed up, and doing much writing by himself, all to the great amusement of the bystanders, who had heard, even in Washington, that 