. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . The change of command occasioned nei-ther trouble nor danger. Fremont himselfacted with perfect propriety. He took leaveof his army in a brief and temperate address,and returned to St. Louis, where he was wel-comed by his admirers with a public meetingand eulogistic speeches. The demonstrationwas harmless and unimportant, though carehad been taken to send authority to (jeneralCurtis to rej)ress disorder, and specially tolook to the safety of the city and the arsenal, t In accordance with the policy outlined bythe President, General Hunter so
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . The change of command occasioned nei-ther trouble nor danger. Fremont himselfacted with perfect propriety. He took leaveof his army in a brief and temperate address,and returned to St. Louis, where he was wel-comed by his admirers with a public meetingand eulogistic speeches. The demonstrationwas harmless and unimportant, though carehad been taken to send authority to (jeneralCurtis to rej)ress disorder, and specially tolook to the safety of the city and the arsenal, t In accordance with the policy outlined bythe President, General Hunter soon drewback the Federal army from Springfield toRolla, and the greater part of it was trans-ferred to another field of operations. Hear-ing of this retrograde movement, McCullochrapidly advanced, and for a season occupiedSpringfield. One of the distressing effects ofthese successive movements of contendingforces is described in a sentence of his re-port, The Union men have nearly all fledwith the Federal troops, leaving this placealmost deserted. \. THE CRUMBLING COTTAGE. MEMORANDA ON THE CIVIL WAR. Union War Songs and Confederate Officers. THE reading of Mr. Brander Matthewss Songs ofthe War, in the August number of The Century,vividly recalls to mind an incident of my own experi-ence which seems to me so apt an illustration of theeffect of army songs upon men that I venture to sendit to vou, as I remember it, after twenty-two years. A day or two after Lees surrender in April, 1S65,I left our ship at Dutch Gap, in the James River,for a run up to Richmond, where I was joined by theships surgeon, the paymaster, and one of the juniorofficers. After doing Richmond pretty thoroughlywe went in the evening to my rooms for dinner. Din-ner being over and the events of the day recounted,the doctor, who was a fine player, opened the piano,saying: Boys, we ve got our old quartette here; letshave a sing. As the house opposite was occupied byparoled Confederate officers, no patriotic songs
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