. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . parley, the antiquated little soldierdrew himself up. and with frigid polite-ness, said: Good day, sir! You go toheadquarters over my head, sir! I havenothing to do with you, sir! You go toGeneral Halleck. sir! But colonel, yousee I am directed to report to you, inaddition to my other duties, and I desire to know when you want me out hereand how often. I rei)]ipd. I have nothing to do with you. sir! You get yourorders from General Halleck
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . parley, the antiquated little soldierdrew himself up. and with frigid polite-ness, said: Good day, sir! You go toheadquarters over my head, sir! I havenothing to do with you, sir! You go toGeneral Halleck. sir! But colonel, yousee I am directed to report to you, inaddition to my other duties, and I desire to know when you want me out hereand how often. I rei)]ipd. I have nothing to do with you. sir! You get yourorders from General Halleck, sir! You go over my head, sir! said thecholeric old gentleman, and that was all I could get out of him. I rode back to the city and attended to my duties uninterrupted by anyword or sign from Colonel Bonneville for weeks, and he had almost passed outof my mind when one day I heard his cane striking the floor of the hall outsidemy office door and immediately the colonel walked in smiling and bland as amorning in May. Without any allusion to our parting or to my relations withGeneral Halleck. he informed me a regiment had arrived at his post requiring. ■iiiim Colonel Robert O. Ingersoll. AMERICAN HEROISM. 7;^ to be mustered (the regiment was that of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. the11th Illinois Cavalry), and he would like me to come out and muster it nextday. I went, and from that time on the old colonel and I were fast friends. One of the oddest figures 1 met during the Civil War was an old Wm. K. Strong. He had been a successful merchant in New Yorkand had amassed a fortune in wool. I believe. When the war l)roke out he wasabroad and he used to tell that he first heard of the struggle, the tiring onSumter, perhaps, when he was on the top of the great pyramid in Egypt andthere announced in a fervid manner his purpose to return and defend hisimperiled country. I have heard his story questioned, but that is not importanthere. General Strong came home and with
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