The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource]

Confederates in Canada.

‘ "I met here General John C. Breckinridge, General McCausland, Colonel Harry Gilmore, Major John Castleman, Captain Hinds, and others who had been officers in the armies of the Confederacy. General Breckinridge looks and is in perfect health. It was represented during the war that his hair had turned from jet black to silvery white. That was a mistake. A few grey hairs are perceptible about the locks, that is all. He is keeping house in a humble, retired way. He is much respected by the citizens, and is invited to two or three parties a week, at the residences of the first families. He is a great walker, walking from six to ten miles a day while the weather permits such exercise. He is a hard student, reading a great deal. All the gentlemen here from the Confederate army conduct themselves with great propriety, and are treated with respect and attention by the citizens."

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