. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . but,as he said, he had satisfied his own conscience and sense ofChristian duty. He was politely treated and shown everyconsideration consistent with the existing situation. Hereturned to Washington and received an appointment fromPresident Lincoln personally to do certain special detectivework in the secret service of the Federal army. He had been engaged in his new occupation some months,when he asked for, and obtained, a leave of absence inorder to return to his old home in Illinois to perform themarriage ceremony for his daughter a
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . but,as he said, he had satisfied his own conscience and sense ofChristian duty. He was politely treated and shown everyconsideration consistent with the existing situation. Hereturned to Washington and received an appointment fromPresident Lincoln personally to do certain special detectivework in the secret service of the Federal army. He had been engaged in his new occupation some months,when he asked for, and obtained, a leave of absence inorder to return to his old home in Illinois to perform themarriage ceremony for his daughter and her about the beginning of the month of April,1865,—the end of the first week,—he began his journey,going by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, via Baltimore—his intention being to attend to some private business inNew York before journeying to Illinois. He entered thetrain, and as he was passing along the aisle of the daycoach (there were no drawing-room cars and vestibuletrains in those days), he espied a lady dressed in mourn-. U. S. SENATOR HENRY WILSON, MASSACHUSETTSLATER VICE-PRESIDENT Civil-war Echoes — Character ing, who was alone and occupied half a seat. He politelyasked if he could seat himself in the other half, and shereplied in the affirmative. He was soon on conversationalterms with her, and found she was a lady of unusual intelli-gence, inclined to be talkative, but at times holding a strongrestraint over herself, as if she were very much afraid ofdisclosing some important secret. The Colonel soon dis-covered this peculiarity and resorted to every possible eflfec-tive expedient to draw out her bursting mystery. He saidhe was a minister of the gospel, and that he constantlyprayed for the war to cease and peace to come over thewhole land. At last she could hold in no longer the secretthat was fostering her vanity as being worthy to possess the train was approaching Baltimore, she confidentiallywhispered in close proximity to the Co
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