...se days of slow travel, were required in order to spend two weeks in the United States. In an entry in Adjutant Griffith's reports, dated Camp Allen, near Monterey, October 19th, I find this note: Colonel Davis left on furlough for sixty days. He left the camp with a corporal's guard, went at great risk but without accident to Camargo, and rode Tartar down to take him home, for fear he might be shot in b...