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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
atamoras. Visiting the hospital quarters of a recently-joined volunteer corps from the States, I remarked a bright-eyed youth of some nineteen years, wan with disease, but cheery withal. The interest he inspired led to his removal to army headquarters, where he soon recovered health and became a pet. This was Bob Wheat, son of an Episcopal clergyman, and he had left school to come to the war. He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to Nicaragua. Exhausting the capacity of South American patriots to pronounce, he quitted their society in disgust, and joined Garibaldi in Italy, whence his keen scent of combat summoned him home in time to receive a bullet at Manassas. The most complete Dugald Dalgetty possible; he had all the defects of the good qualities of that doughty warrior. Some months after the time of which I am writing, a body of Federal horse was captured in the valley of Virginia. The colonel comman