obliged to come back to Paris, to find books and means neither Spain nor Portugal would afford me. But so it is, and I have at this moment on my table six volumes, and shall, before I leave Paris, have many more, which I sought in vain in the libraries of the capital, of Seville, and Granada; and yet, so unequally are the treasures of these languages distributed, that the better half is still wanting in Paris, where the rarest is to be found.
Journal.
Paris, December 10, 1818, to January 12, 1819.
Summary such as he made at the end of his visits in other cities.—The dinner-hour at Paris is six o'clock or half past 6. I always dined in company, generally either at Count Pastoret's, at the Duc de Duras', at the Count de Ste. Aulaire's, or, if I had no special engagement, at the Duc de Broglie's, on whose table I always had a plate.
Dinner is not so solemn an affair at Paris as it is almost everywhere else.
It is soon over, you come out into the salon, take coffee and talk, an
battles before Richmond under General McClellan, 1862.
Wounded at Gaines's Mill, and sent as a prisoner to Richmond.
Rejoined his regiment, and present at the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and the battles following; engaged at Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 9, 1864.
Mustered out, Oct. 17, 1864.
Died at Newtonville, Mass., Mar. 23, 1889.
Tower, zealous Bates.
Born at Cohasset, Mass., Jan. 12, 1819.
Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1837, to July 1, 1841. Second Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, July 1, 1841. Brevet First Lieutenant, Apr. 18, 1847. First Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, Apr. 24, 1847. Brevet Captain, Aug. 20, 1847. Brevet Major, Sept. 13, 1847.
Captain, Corps of Engineers, July 1, 1855. Chief engineer in the defence of Fort Pickens, Fla., Feb. 20, 1861, to May 10, 1862.
Major, Aug. 6, 1861.
Present at the repulse of the attack on Santa Rosa Island, Fla., Oct.