... simple and kind, and gentle as a child. I remember one evening on our ride across Arkansas, we stopped at the hospitable house of an old gentlemen (Dr. Williams) about one day's march this side of Van Buren . We were sitting on the portico --Van Dorn and I-when a little child came out to us; he called her to him, and soon had her confidence, and as she told him, in her child-like way, that she was an o...