, and his conversations in those social reunions gave me the very highest opinion of his profound judgment.
He was a man of stately but winning courtesy, although occasionally indulging in pleasantry.
At present I can recall but two of those conversations.
One evening we received a St. Louis paper containing a general order of General Fremont, announcing his staff — a numerous body, composed largely of gentlemen with foreign names.
As, for instance, General Asboth, Colonel De Alma, Majors Kappner and Blome, Captains Emavic Meizaras, Kalmanuezze, Zagonyi, Vanstein Kiste, Sacche, and Geister, Lieutenants Napoleon Westerburg, Addone, Kroger, etc. After the list was read over to him, the general, with an expressive smile, remarked, There is too much tail to that kite.
I believe the United States Government soon afterward came to the same conclusion.
On another evening, some of his staff were discussing the question of the probable boundary-line of the Confederate States, in the fin
nd Gravelly Runs, Va.
46 III, 293
Hunt, Henry J.:
Fredericksburg, Va.
21, 1127
Jackson, Henry R.:
Greenbrier River, W. Va.
5, 229
Jackson, Thomas J.:
McDowell, Va.
12 i, 474, 475
Jenney, William L. B.:
Arkansas Post, Ark.
17 i, 760, 761
Johnson, Bushrod R.:
Chickamauga, Ga.
30 II, 468, 469
Johnson, L.:
Dalton, Ga.
39 i, 722
Jones, Fielder A.:
Stone's River, Tenn.
20 i, 313
Jones, Samuel:
Rocky Gap, W. Va.
29 i, 47
Kappner, Franz:
Northern Virginia Campaign
12 i, 260
Kauffman, Albert B.:
Searcy Landing, Ark.
34 i, 105
Kean, R. G.H.:
Fort Harrison, Va.
46 II, 1169
Kennedy, John D.:
Bentonville, N. C.
47 i, 1110
Kershaw, Joseph B.:
Totopotomoy River, Va.
36 III, 845
Kimball, Nathan:
Kernstown, Va.
12 i, 362-365
Kitching, J. Howard:
North Anna River, Va.
36 III, 60
Kossak, William:
Vicksburg, Miss.
24 II, 191
Lane, James C.:
Chancellors
d R.:
Stone's River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863
31, 3
Johnson, J. P.:
Galveston, Tex., and fortifications
38, 1
Sabine Pass, Tex., 1863
32, 3
Kamecke, Theo. Von:
Red River Campaign, March 10-May 22, 1864
52
Kappner, Franz:
Bull Run, Va., Aug. 30, 1862
22, 4
Groveton, or Manassas Plains, Aug. 29, 1862
22, 4
Northern Virginia Campaign, Aug. 16-Sept. 2, 1862
21, 13
Kappner, Ignatz G.:
Stubbs' Plantation, Brice's Cross-Roads, Miss., JunKappner, Ignatz G.:
Stubbs' Plantation, Brice's Cross-Roads, Miss., June, 1864
63, 3
Karnasch, Julius E.:
Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 20-July 4, 1863
36, 2
Kellersberg, Julius:
Sabine Pass, Tex., 1863
32, 3
Kelley, Benjamin E.:
Pleasant Mills, Md., Aug. 1, 1864
54, 3
Key, John R.:
Charleston, S. C.
131, 1
Kilp, Anton:
Campaigns, Army of the Cumberland
24, 3; 118, 1
Logan's Cross-Roads, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862
6, 3
Mill Springs, Ky., Jan., 1862
6, 3
Kilpatrick, Judson:
Fairburn, Ga., Aug. 15-16, 1864
90, 2