erman, Purser Goddard, an old Ohio friend of ours, was on the Stephens, and most kindly gave up his own room to her, and such lady friends as she included in her party.
The Golden Age was afterward partially repaired at Quicara, pumped out, and steamed to Panama, when, after further repairs, she resumed her place in the line.
I think she is still in existence, but Commodore Watkins afterward lost his life in China, by falling down a hatchway.
Mrs. Sherman returned in the latter part of November of the same year, when Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, who meantime had bought — a lot next to us and erected a house thereon, removed to it, and we thus continued close neighbors and friends until we left the country for good in 1857.
During the summer of 1856, in San Francisco, occurred one of those unhappy events, too common to new countries, in which I became involved in spite of myself.
William Neely Johnson was Governor of California, and resided at Sacramento City; General John E. Wool co
ng and books, while all others had to pay their entire expenses, including tuition.
Early in November, Profs. Smith, Vallas, St. Ange, and I, met a committee of the Board of Supervisors, composed o homes, and the professors wherever they pleased — all to meet again on the 1st day of the next November. Major Smith and I agreed to meet in New York on a certain day in August, to purchase books, mo the Board of Supervisors, but no other changes were made in our small circle of professors.
November came, and with it nearly if not quite all our first set of cadets, and others, to the number ofrm that was lowering heavy on the political horizon.
The presidential election was to occur in November, and the nominations had already been made in stormy debates by the usual conventions.
Lincolny kept aloof from politics, would take no part, and remember that on the day of the election in November I was notified that it would be advisable for me to vote for Bell and Everett, but I openly sai
, and his army was strung along the river all the way from Young's Point up to Lake Providence, at least sixty miles. I had always contended that the best way to take Vicksburg was to resume the movement which had been so well begun the previous November, viz., for the main army to march by land down the country inland of the Mississippi River; while the gunboat-fleet and a minor land-force should threaten Vicksburg on its river-front.
I reasoned that, with the large force then subject to Genll restore to them the slaves and privileges which they feel are otherwise lost forever.
In my judgment, we have two more battles to win before we should even bother our minds with the idea of restoring civil order — viz., one near Meridian, in November, and one near Shreveport, in February and March next, when Red River is navigable by our gunboats.
When these are done, then, and not until then, will the planters of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, submit.
Slavery is already gone, and,
