. A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector . roportionately, according to the suggested to him that he and his two clerks could fixthat by going about and directing that they should takethe articles that would go to make the complete rationsin better proportions, and I said, You need have nofear. Colonel, but that your accounts will be madestraight. The army cant wait
. A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector . roportionately, according to the suggested to him that he and his two clerks could fixthat by going about and directing that they should takethe articles that would go to make the complete rationsin better proportions, and I said, You need have nofear. Colonel, but that your accounts will be madestraight. The army cant wait for these supplies, andcalmed him as well as I could, and Colonel Smith andsome of the citizens, including a Mr. Pratt, a veryrich and philanthropic man, talked the same way, andthe Commissary took hold and helped. I then went onto Washington and returned with two car-loads of mailand one man, because the rest of the agents were withthe army or on the road. This time we took the mail 36 A CHAUTAUQUA BOY to Point of Rocks, the advance of the Army of thePotomac having reached there, and the mails wereplaced in the Quartermasters wagons for the differentDivisions and taken to the army, so that the survivorsof Gettysburg received their letters from c o c 0) 01 c & O O 3 H-1 rt^ o a S Tn o s < C o :-^ :3 B -*-! o u 12 c ^ J-i C3 -*^ Ui V! is o ■«5 4J O 5 o ^ ^ o H^-g CHAPTER II FROM GETTYSBURG TO RICHMOND THE army next made camp along the Orange andAlexandria Railroad in Orange and Culpeppercounties, Virginia, General Meades headquarters beingnear Brandy Station, and our mails, as well as othersupplies, were taken to the army from Alexandria byrail. Two four-horse wagons carried the mail fromthe Washington City post-office to the train at Alex-andria, a distance of eight miles, every morning, leav-ing the Washington post-office at five oclock and driv-ing the eight miles in one hour. In the afternoon themails were returned in the same way. General Grant came east and es
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