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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
in high spirits (as he might well be, with a letter of appointment in his pocket) and stood in front of his tent, joking with his aides, a very rare performance with him. Now here's Lyman, Lyman, being a volunteer aide, was not eligible for a brevet. said he, looking like Mephistopheles in good humor, he has no brevet, but I am going to write to the Governor of Massachusetts to make him a Field Marshal. Whereat he rubbed the side of his long nose, as he always does when he laughs. December 8, 1864 There came down an elephant of a young Englishman, who, if there be brains in his skull, they are so well concealed that nobody has found them hereabout. To entertain him is like rolling a barrel of potatoes up a steep hill. Nevertheless, he is a Lieutenant of Engineers. I should think he might construct an earthwork in, say, a century. I fancy he has played out all his intellect in trying to spell and pronounce his own name which is the euphonious one of S-tt-rthw — t; you will