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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
and slightly elevated militia general brewed the punch and made several elegant speeches. The latter was a rough-faced old hero, and gloried in the name of McGuffin. On these festive occasions General Magruder wears a red woollen cap, and fills the president's chair with great aptitude. It was 11.30 before I could tear myself away from this agreeable party; but at length I effected my exit amidst a profusion of kind expressions, and laden with heaps of letters of introduction. 16th April, 1863 (Thursday). Now our troubles commenced. Seated in Mexican saddles, and mounted on raw-boned mustangs, whose energy had been a good deal impaired by a month's steady travelling on bad food, McCarthy and I left the hospitable messtent about midnight, and started in search of Mr. Sargent and his vehicle. We were under the guidance of two Texan Rangers. About daylight we hove in sight of Los Animos, a desolate farm-house, in the neighborhood of which Mr. Sargent was supposed to be