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Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
r having left me even for an hour. That'sthe kind of friends and comrades soldiers are! As soon as I was well enough to travel, Hill took me to his home at Culpeper Court-house in Virginia. There they kept me quite a long time. That dear old gentleman, his father, brought to my bedside every morning a brandy mint-julep, made with his own hand, to drink before I got up. Under its benign influence my recovery was very rapid. But let none of my young friends forget that the best gifts of Providence are those most liable to be abused. The wise Virginian never offered me too many of them. By the first of December Hill and I went together to West Point, I to report for duty, and he to visit his numerous warm friends at that delightful station. There we parted, in December, 1855, never to meet again. With the glad tidings from Virginia that peace was near, there came to me in North Carolina the report that LieutenantGen-eral A. P. Hill had been killed in the last battle at Petersburg
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d to duty in the Department of philosophy at West Point interest in astronomy marriage a hint froy in respect to the demands of discipline at West Point. Still I had as good a time, that graduatinor. A young man who had been in my class at West Point, but had resigned before the class had gradury. But I had stood very high in drawing at West Point, and could not allow myself to be disturbed irst lieutenant and detailing me for duty at West Point. So Hill and I came out of Florida togetherexperience. I never had any more trouble at West Point, though I did have much difficulty in helpin, generally and perfectly well understood at West Point. The object there is to develop the mental,ysics, a young gentleman named Drown came to West Point, and asked me to give him some private lesso few years instead of a lifetime. In that West Point observatory I had one of the many opportunito the command of the army, and was buried at West Point by the side of our first-born son, who had d[3 more...]
Lake Michigan (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
at the plans of the War Department were. My old friend and companion George L. Hartsuff, who had like duty to perform on the west side of the lake, was attacked by the Indians and severely wounded, several of his men being killed. He and a few others made their escape. Hartsuff was one of the strongest, bravest, finest soldiers I ever knew, and one of my most intimate friends; but, unlike myself, he was always in bad luck. He got caught by the Seminoles in Florida; was shipwrecked on Lake Michigan; came very near dying of yellow fever; and after organizing the Twenty-third Army Corps and commanding it for a time, finally died of the wounds he had received in Florida. I had a new and peculiar experience at Fort Capron during my convalescence. I had there twenty-five or thirty convalescent soldiers, and no doctor, but an intelligent hospital steward. I was like the lawyer who was asked to say grace at the table of one of his wealthy clients, and who was unwilling to admit, unde
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
f troops, which took the Moultrie garrison to Florida, and some of the 1st Artillery to their place battle for his country. I took with me to Florida some law-books—Blackstone, Kent, and a few otetter, I read over the entire code of the State of Florida. Several times in after years I found it But I had nothing better to do for a time in Florida, and when I got out I did not find my memory operations designed by the War Department for Florida was the occupation of Fort Jupiter, and the cth my part of the work and was ordered out of Florida before the Seminoles found out what the plan bad luck. He got caught by the Seminoles in Florida; was shipwrecked on Lake Michigan; came very finally died of the wounds he had received in Florida. I had a new and peculiar experience at Fouty at West Point. So Hill and I came out of Florida together. On board the St. John's River steaaduated, and a short absence on account of my Florida debility, which had reduced me to 120 pounds
Kissimmee (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
America and the Seminole nation. A new policy was soon inaugurated, which had for its object to establish a complete line of posts across the State from Jupiter to Lake Okeechobee, and thence westward to the gulf, so as more securely to confine the Seminoles within the Everglade region, although, so far as I know, nobody then wanted the use of that more northern part of this vast territory. The first step was to reopen the old military road from the mouth of Indian River across to the Kissimmee River, and thence to Tampa. Being the second lieutenant of the single company, I was given the privilege of doing that work, and nine men and one wagon were assigned me for that purpose. I spent the larger part of my time, going and coming, in hunting on either the right or the left of the road, thereby obtaining all the deer and turkeys the command could consume, but paying very little attention to the road itself, in utter disregard of the usual military rule which requires that a sketch
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ence my recovery was very rapid. But let none of my young friends forget that the best gifts of Providence are those most liable to be abused. The wise Virginian never offered me too many of them. By the first of December Hill and I went together to West Point, I to report for duty, and he to visit his numerous warm friends at that delightful station. There we parted, in December, 1855, never to meet again. With the glad tidings from Virginia that peace was near, there came to me in North Carolina the report that LieutenantGen-eral A. P. Hill had been killed in the last battle at Petersburg. A keen pang shot through my heart, for he had not ceased to be esteemed as my kind friend and brother, though for four years numbered among the public enemy. His sense of duty, so false in my judgment, I yet knew to be sincere, because I knew the man. I wish all my fellow-citizens, North and South, East and West, could know each other as well as I knew A. P. Hill. I was assigned to duty i
Indian River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d were even more fully occupied than usual, mostly by families of planters from the rice plantations of South Carolina. Hospitality was unbounded, and of the most charming character. Nothing I have experienced at home or in the great capitals of Europe has surpassed or dimmed the memory of that first introduction to Southern society. In December, 1853, the order came announcing my appointment as second lieutenant, 1st Artillery, and directing me to join Battery D at Fort Capron, Indian River, Florida. A steamer took me to Palatka, stopping a short time at Jacksonville, which was then little more than a landing on the St. John's River. After a week's delay at Palatka, another little mail-steamer carried me and a few other passengers up the river to Lake Monroe, whence a mule served for transportation across to New Smyrna, on Mosquito Lagoon, opposite the inlet. It was a great day's sport going up the river. The banks seemed almost lined with alligators, and the water covered w
Jacksonville (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
from the rice plantations of South Carolina. Hospitality was unbounded, and of the most charming character. Nothing I have experienced at home or in the great capitals of Europe has surpassed or dimmed the memory of that first introduction to Southern society. In December, 1853, the order came announcing my appointment as second lieutenant, 1st Artillery, and directing me to join Battery D at Fort Capron, Indian River, Florida. A steamer took me to Palatka, stopping a short time at Jacksonville, which was then little more than a landing on the St. John's River. After a week's delay at Palatka, another little mail-steamer carried me and a few other passengers up the river to Lake Monroe, whence a mule served for transportation across to New Smyrna, on Mosquito Lagoon, opposite the inlet. It was a great day's sport going up the river. The banks seemed almost lined with alligators, and the water covered with water-fowl of all kinds, while an occasional deer or flock of turkeys n
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Chapter II On graduating leave Brevet second lieutenant in the 2d artillery at Fort Moultrie an officer's credit before the War second lieutenant in the 1st artillery journey to Fort Capron, Florida a reservation as to whisky a trie Freeport Baptist meeting-house. Confidence was thereby restored. My first orders assigned me to duty at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, as brevet second lieutenant in the 2d Artillery. The steamer landed me at Charleston, September 29, 1853, tlamentably true that such has not been the case since the war. I found only one officer on duty with my battery at Fort Moultrie, and he was awaiting my arrival so that he might go on leave. He turned over the command with a manifestation of connd then some days at Charleston, where I became so much better that he ventured to leave me long enough to go over to Fort Moultrie to see some of our brother officers. While he was away I became so ill again that the doctor had to put me under the
Palatka (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
y of that first introduction to Southern society. In December, 1853, the order came announcing my appointment as second lieutenant, 1st Artillery, and directing me to join Battery D at Fort Capron, Indian River, Florida. A steamer took me to Palatka, stopping a short time at Jacksonville, which was then little more than a landing on the St. John's River. After a week's delay at Palatka, another little mail-steamer carried me and a few other passengers up the river to Lake Monroe, whence a Palatka, another little mail-steamer carried me and a few other passengers up the river to Lake Monroe, whence a mule served for transportation across to New Smyrna, on Mosquito Lagoon, opposite the inlet. It was a great day's sport going up the river. The banks seemed almost lined with alligators, and the water covered with water-fowl of all kinds, while an occasional deer or flock of turkeys near by would offer a chance shot. At New Smyrna Mrs. Sheldon provided excellent entertainment during the ten days waiting for the mail-boat down Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River, while Mr. Sheldon's pack of houn
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