, have
I gazed on it. I was only sixteen and a half years old when I joined his
company at David's Island, Dec. 6th, 1871. Folliot A. Whitney was 1st
lieutenant and Cyrus Earnest, 2nd. What a fine man Whitney was. A finer
man nor truer gentleman ever wore a shoulder strap. If he had been
company commander I'd have re-enlisted and stayed with him. I was always
afraid of Worth, though he was always good to my brother and myself.
I deeply regretted Lieut. Whitney's death in Cuba, and I watched Major
Worth's career in the last war. It nearly broke my heart that I could
not go. Oh, the rattle of the war drum and the bugle calls and the
marching troops, it set me crazy, and me not able to take a hand in the
scrap.

Mrs. Summerhays calls him Wm. T. Worth, isn't it Wm. S. Worth?

The copy I have read was loaned me by Captain Baird; he says it's a
Christmas gift from General Carter, and I must return it. My poor wife
has read it with keen interest and says she: "William, I am going to
have that book for my children," and she'll get it, yea, verily! she
will.

Well, Colonel, I'm right glad to know that you are still on this side of
the great divide, and I know that you and Mrs. S. will be glad to hear
from an old "walk-a-heap" of the 8th.

I am working for a Cumberland newspaper--Lonaconing reporter--and I will
send you a copy or two of the paper with this. And now, permit me to
subscribe myself your

Comrade In Arms,

WILLIAM A. GURNETT.

Dear Mrs. Summerhayes:

Read your book--in fact when I got started I forgot my bedtime (and you
know how rigid that is) and sat it through.

It has a bully note of the old army--it was all worthwhile--they had
color, those days.

I say--now suppose you had married a man who kept a drug store--see what
you would have had and see what you would have missed.

Yours, FREDERIC REMINGTON.

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