auded during the
delivery of his lecture. His voice is rich and powerful, his
intonation accurate, and his general manner could not help
imparting interest to the stirring deeds which he so graphically
delineated."

CHAPTER XXXII.

FROM BOSTON TO CHICAGO.

In the saddle.--Bunker Hill.--Arrives in
Albany.--Reminiscences.--The Soldiers' Home.--Contributions for
erecting Soldiers' Home.--Reception at
Rochester.--Buffalo.--Dunkirk.--Swanville.--Cleveland.--Massacre
of General Custer.--Monroe.--Lectures for Custer
Monument.--Father of General Custer.--Detroit.--Kalamazoo.--An
adventure.--Gives "Paul Revere" a
rest.--Decatur.--Niles.--Michigan City.--Chicago.

From a journal kept by Captain Glazier during his horseback ride from
ocean to ocean, we shall gather most of the incidents of his journey--a
journey, so far as we are aware, without any precedent, and having for
its sole object the acquirement of knowledge. His intention was to
lecture in the leading cities and villages through which he passed, in
the interest of the relief fund of the "Grand Army of the Republic," to
which order he was greatly attached.

The Boston _Globe_ of May ninth, 1876, contained the following brief
notice:

"Boston to San Francisco.--Captain Willard Glazier started from the
Revere House this morning at eleven o'clock, on horseback, for San
Francisco. Quite a gathering of his friends and comrades of the
'Grand Army' were present to wish him God-speed. He was escorted by
Colonel John F. Finley and E. A. Williston, who were mounted; and
Adjutant-General Charles W. Thompson, Department of Massachusetts,
'G. A. R.;' Commander Theo. L. Kelly, of Post 15; Adjutant Grafton
Fenno, of Post 7, and many others in carriages, who will accompany
him to Bunker Hill and thence to Brighton."

[Illustration: Ocean To Ocean On Horseback--riding Out Of Boston.]

The Captain's horse, which he had named "Paul Revere," was a noble
creature, black as jet, of good pedigree, and possessing, in no slight
measure, the sterling qualities of endurance, pace, and fidelity, albeit
occasionally somewhat restive and wilful.

On leaving the "Revere," the party referred to in the above notice
proceeded to Bunker Hill, gazed reverentially at the monument
commemorating the famous battle, and then headed for Brighton. The short
journey had been rendered comfortless by