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Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 39
Chapter 39: Cabinet life. In the summer of 1853 I left New Orleans, under the care of Major T. P. Andrews of the army, to join Mr. Davis in Washington, with my baby, my little sister, Margaret Graham, and brother, Becket Kempe Howell; the two latter were going to school. We remained a day in Mobile, and the little ten-year old boy went to dinner alone. He had never been at a hotel before. The waiter laid down the wine card before him, of which the child ordered several bottles. He drank a teaspoonful of it and then told me in confidence: I suppose the people of the hotel give it, and some of them drink it. I tried, but I could not. He thought it was included in the ordinary charge for board. We departed shortly after the yellow fever had appeared in the city. General David Twiggs came to bid me goodby the day before I left, and told me that Colonel Bliss was quite ill with the disease; the day after I reached Washington, his death was announced. He was a handsome man, of
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 39
st upon my view of the matter, but I will resign rather than embarrass the President, or do what I consider an injustice. Late in the evening the President sent an explanatory note, offering to announce himself responsible for the objectionable course, and so it was settled. Mr. Davis has given an account of the slight dissonance elsewhere. A most absurd thing occurred through my sympathy with a young couple who were about to be separated in consequence of the husband being ordered to San Francisco at a critical time for the wife. Personally anxious about his wife, the lieutenant craved a postponement of three or four weeks; but General Scott refused the application. The officer had married into the Taylor family and the general was not intent upon serving them. There were no railways then to that distant State and to go there one must cross the Isthmus, or double the Cape. Then the journey was more tedious and the communication more difficult than it now is with China. In
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 39
ll the sting. He was one of the most genuinely honest, upright men I have ever known. His wants were few, his personal habits were rather elegant. He accepted no presents, but did not seem to think it a matter to be vaunted, though he dearly loved to give, and gave much to the needy. At the time the first expedition to Japan returned home there were sent as presents a large number of curios and much fine lacquer work-besides some Japanese dogs-very singular animals, unknown in the United States at that time. Mr. Pierce came over to see us early after breakfast the day after they arrived, as glad as a boy to have something to give to his friend. He was hardly seated before he burst out with, General, I have a dog for you. Mr. Davis said, What can I do with a dog in town? Oh! said the President, you can put it in a tea-saucer, if it crowds your house. The house had twenty-three rooms in it, and our family were four in number. It was in those days one of the most spacious
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 39
opportunity to mourn in secret. While we lived here, Colonel Delafield, Major Mordecai and Captain McClellan were sent as a military commission to the Crimea to study the methods of war adopted there. They were to visit England, France, and Russia as well. We invited the general officers of the Army and the ambassadors from these countries to meet the Commission. Generals Scott, Jessup, and Totten were present. Colonel Delafield was an alert soldierly man with much of scientific acquired with the English officers, saw the defects of their commissariat, their consequent suffering, their splendid gallantry in action, and compared the methods of the French and English in active warfare. After the Malakoff was taken they went into Russia. There Captain McClellan mastered the language in three months in order to read their books on military science, and when tie commission returned the fruits of their journey were as prodigal and fair as those brought by the spies from the Promis
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 39
his life he occasionally spoke of the strong young man on whose arm, had God so willed it, I might have leaned and gone down to my grave. The sympathy of thousands is gratifying and acceptable as a tribute to the living as well as to the dead, but one misses sorely the opportunity to mourn in secret. While we lived here, Colonel Delafield, Major Mordecai and Captain McClellan were sent as a military commission to the Crimea to study the methods of war adopted there. They were to visit England, France, and Russia as well. We invited the general officers of the Army and the ambassadors from these countries to meet the Commission. Generals Scott, Jessup, and Totten were present. Colonel Delafield was an alert soldierly man with much of scientific acquirement, but a curt manner. Major Mordecai was a Hebrew, and one could readily understand, after seeing him, how that race had furnished the highest type of manhood; his mind was versatile, at times even playful, but his habits of
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 39
ht it was included in the ordinary charge for board. We departed shortly after the yellow fever had appeared in the city. General David Twiggs came to bid me goodby the day before I left, and told me that Colonel Bliss was quite ill with the disease; the day after I reached Washington, his death was announced. He was a handsome man, of very dignified mien, an accomplished soldier, a graceful writer, and was such a rare union of all that renders a man acceptable to his fellowmen that at West Point he used to be called Perfect Bliss. The water is so near the surface about the city that to obtain sepulture is an anxious consideration with those who bury their dead there, and tombs are built in the walls of the cemetery by many. In this epidemic, however, the people died in such numbers that it became necessary to burn many of the dead. When we reached Washington we found Mr. Davis had rented a furnished house on Thirteenth Street, temporarily, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brodhead
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 39
eans, under the care of Major T. P. Andrews of the army, to join Mr. Davis in Washington, with my baby, my little sister, Margaret Graham, and brother, Becket Kempe Hme that Colonel Bliss was quite ill with the disease; the day after I reached Washington, his death was announced. He was a handsome man, of very dignified mien, an umbers that it became necessary to burn many of the dead. When we reached Washington we found Mr. Davis had rented a furnished house on Thirteenth Street, temporathe poor lad's head was crushed. The grief-stricken mother was brought to Washington, more dead than alive. Certainly there was little in the new life she led the four in number. It was in those days one of the most spacious dwellings in Washington. After this sally, Mr. Pierce went on to say that if I chose I might abstracomewhat less troublesome as he gained in age and experience. When he left Washington, in 1861, he was given to Patrick Jordon, Mr. Davis's faithful messenger, to
Concord, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 39
e cheerful. I asked him what Mr. Davis had said. He answered, Oh! I shall not do it again, but brother Jeff knows how a man feels, and understands that he sometimes gives way when he is bored without meaning to do it. As soon as practicable, when our year was out in this house, we removed to one once occupied by Mr. Edward Everett, at the corner of F and Fourteenth Streets, much nearer to the War Department, not larger, but more commodious. The President had brought with him from Concord the son of a widowed friend, to be his private secretary. Sidney Webster was a young man of pleasant, decorous manners, and a nice sense of propriety and honor. He made himself acceptable to the President's Cabinet, and to visitors very generally. The position is a difficult one to fill, and the temptation is very great to a young man to arrogate to himself the importance due alone to his office. Mr. Webster was the most impersonal private secretary of all I have known in that position.
Japan (Japan) (search for this): chapter 39
g a friend had done, gravely sincere and plain in the expression of his opinion, but in the reproof there was no semblance of a sense of superiority, and this took out all the sting. He was one of the most genuinely honest, upright men I have ever known. His wants were few, his personal habits were rather elegant. He accepted no presents, but did not seem to think it a matter to be vaunted, though he dearly loved to give, and gave much to the needy. At the time the first expedition to Japan returned home there were sent as presents a large number of curios and much fine lacquer work-besides some Japanese dogs-very singular animals, unknown in the United States at that time. Mr. Pierce came over to see us early after breakfast the day after they arrived, as glad as a boy to have something to give to his friend. He was hardly seated before he burst out with, General, I have a dog for you. Mr. Davis said, What can I do with a dog in town? Oh! said the President, you can put
France (France) (search for this): chapter 39
s sorely the opportunity to mourn in secret. While we lived here, Colonel Delafield, Major Mordecai and Captain McClellan were sent as a military commission to the Crimea to study the methods of war adopted there. They were to visit England, France, and Russia as well. We invited the general officers of the Army and the ambassadors from these countries to meet the Commission. Generals Scott, Jessup, and Totten were present. Colonel Delafield was an alert soldierly man with much of scient nature, to teach the whole company at once. Each one of the ministers present had given assurance of the willing co-operation of their Government with the labors of the commission; but our officers were afterward not granted the facilities by France for which Comte de Sartige hoped — in fact they received scant courtesy, which was amply made up, however, by the kindness of the English and Russian Governments. They proceeded to the seat of war, where they messed with the English officers,
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