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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
how surely he had deserved and won the confidence of his superior officers. In those days railroad travelling was far from pleasant. The train upon which Licutenaut Chalaron embarked at Knoxville was a motley affair,—perhaps a single passenger-car, rough and dilapidated (crowded with those who, though ill, made shift to sit up or recline upon the seats), box-cars and cattle-cars filled with suffering men helplessly sick. In order that these might not be crowded, Lieutenant Chalaron, with one or two others, rode on the top of a box-car for twelve hours, from Knoxville to Chattanooga, exposed to the inclement weather which he was ill prepared to meet, haviared the inexpressible hardships of the Kentucky campaign, including destitution of suitable clothing. I take pleasure in recording this noble act, because Lieutenant Chalaron was from New Orleans (also my own beloved home). The impulse of selfsacrifice, and of chivalrous devotion towards the helpless and suffering, sprung from a