, in Harvard University.
His neighbor was Corporal Armstrong of the same Company. Both were
slightly wounded, doing well. I learned then and since from Mr. Noyes
that they and their comrades were completely overwhelmed by the
attentions of the good people of Harrisburg,--that the ladies brought
them fruits and flowers, and smiles, better than either,--and that the
little boys of the place were almost fighting for the privilege of doing
their errands. I am afraid there will be a good many hearts pierced in
this war that will have no bulletmark to show.

There were some heavy hours to get rid of, and we thought a visit to Camp
Curtin might lighten some of them. A rickety wagon carried us to the
camp, in company with a young woman from Troy, who had a basket of good
things with her for a sick brother. "Poor boy! he will be sure to die,"
she said. The rustic sentries uncrossed their muskets and let us in.
The camp was on a fair plain, girdled with hills, spacious, well kept
apparently, but did not present any peculiar attraction for us. The
visit would have been a dull one, had we not happened to get sight of a
singular-looking set of human beings in the distance. They were clad in
stuff of different hues, gray and brown being the leading shades, but
both subdued by a neutral tint, such as is wont to harmonize the
variegated apparel of travel-stained vagabonds. They looked slouchy,
listless, torpid,--an ill-conditioned crew, at first sight, made up of
such fellows as an old woman would drive away from her hen-roost with a
broomstick. Yet these were estrays from the fiery army which has given
our generals so much trouble,--"Secesh prisoners," as a bystander told
us. A talk with them might be profitable and entertaining. But they
were tabooed to the common visitor, and it was necessary to get inside of
the line which separated us from them.

A solid, square captain was standing near by, to whom we were referred.
Look a man calmly through the very centre of his pupils and ask him for
anything with a tone implying entire conviction that he will grant it,
and he will very commonly consent to the thing asked, were it to commit
hari-kari. The Captain acceded to my postulate, and accepted my friend
as a corollary. As one string of my own ancestors was of Batavian
origin, I may be permitted to say that my new friend was of the Dutch
type, like the Amsterdam galiots, broad in the beam, capacious in the
hold, and calcul