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nders notwithstanding, though the patriotism of the country promptly threw its mantle at the time over the old man's shoulders. Gen. Scott once visited Europe, and having heard himself so often called the "great captain of the age." was intensely mortified and disappointed to find that his name was scarcely known by one in a hundred even of the military community. Andrew Jackson was known, the man who displayed, in fighting Indians and British, military genius as well as courage, but Wingfield, (or Winfield,) as be chooses to style it, was a man scarcely heard of. It is due to Scott's genuine courage to say that, none of the wounds he received in the late war, and which he refers to on all possible occasions, ever gave him such a smart as the unaffected ignorance of the "great captain of the age," which he encountered in every military circle of Europe. Who but the vainest and most self-complacent of mortals could have supposed that in that Old World, where the bloody foot-prin