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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 17: campaign of Chattanooga (search)
everything fit for a remount, I asked Blair to let Dana have a led horse of his till another could be got, but this he churlishly declined to do. At the village of Philadelphia, a few miles in the rear, we had heard confidentially of a horse which had been concealed from the Confederates in a stall between a false wall and the rear end of the stable, and Dana proposed to go back for that, but the distance was too great. We therefore pushed on as best we could till we came to the camp of Colonel Hecker (president of the German Confederation of 1848). Here we discovered an excellent gray gelding running at large in a field near by, and, although strict orders had been issued to respect private property, at our request the colonel directed his men to catch the horse and bring it in, adding by way of explanation, with a suggestive twinkle of the eye, It belongs to Herr Dana, the Assistant Secretary of War. During this long but pleasant ride Dana and Schurz beguiled the journey with con
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
rles G., 194. Hammond, Senator, 153, 180. Hancock, General, 319-324, 328, 348, 450. Hankinson's Ferry, 220, 221. Hanover, 22. Harbinger, the, 34, 42, 47, 50, 51. Hard Times Landing, 217. Harker, Colonel Charles G., 264, 266. Harper's Ferry, 347, 348. Harrison, President, 472, 475, 478. Harvard College, 20, 25, 33, 500. Hawaiian Islands, 472. Hawe's Shop, 321. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 37, 45, 454. Hayes, General, 442-445, 447, 456, 457, 462. Hazen, General, 264, 284. Hecker, Colonel, 296. Hedge, Professor, 35. Heine, 56. Helena, Arkansas, 207. Hendricks, 442, 443. Hepburn, W. P., 473. Herald, New York, 128, 129, 232, 440, 484-489. Herder, 453. Herman, poet, 56. Hildreth, 143, 153. Higginson, Colonel, 47. Hive, The, 44. Hoar, E. Rockwood, 410, 412, 418, 419. Holman, the Great Objector, 459. Holt, 182. Hood, General, 343, 346, 349, 350, 351, 355, 356. Hooker, General, 268, 275, 278, 283, 284-286, 291. Hooper, 354. Horace, quotat