. John Burroughs, boy and man . John Burroughs swimming in a mountain stream Photo by Richard liatson Gil Driving his oar on the farm where he drove oxen as a bov. CHAPTER XI STUDENT AND TEACHER (1862-1863) IN the spring of 1862, the young teacher heard of thebrilliant feats of Grant at Forts Henry and Donelson; hewell remembers the first pictures of him in Harpers no one then knew how Grant looked, and as a pictureof him must be had, evidently reasoning that to haveachieved what he had, he must be a giant, they representedhim as over six feet tall—a fierce-looking, black-beardedhero
. John Burroughs, boy and man . John Burroughs swimming in a mountain stream Photo by Richard liatson Gil Driving his oar on the farm where he drove oxen as a bov. CHAPTER XI STUDENT AND TEACHER (1862-1863) IN the spring of 1862, the young teacher heard of thebrilliant feats of Grant at Forts Henry and Donelson; hewell remembers the first pictures of him in Harpers no one then knew how Grant looked, and as a pictureof him must be had, evidently reasoning that to haveachieved what he had, he must be a giant, they representedhim as over six feet tall—a fierce-looking, black-beardedhero. John Burroughs was out in the fields at the Old Homeboiling sap those early April days of 1862 when he saw aneighbour, John Smith, coming rapidly across the fieldsthrough the deep snow. Jumping his horse over thefences, Smith rushed up and announced the news of theBattle of Shiloh, the terrific losses of the Confederates,and the death of their gallant General Johnston. Thesap-boiling and other farm work continued, but an under-current of unrest, to which letters from Allen (in Wash-ington) contributed, was bearing our young friend ontoward more eventful
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