. 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 . ajor, and re-entered the service as a Brigadier General in the Mexican War he at first commanded troops andthen was made Commissary General of General Zach-ary Taylors army, and achieved a very high reputa-tion in that capacity. He was a warm friend of Gen-eral Taylor, and one day, at dinner, he told of a callhe made upon Taylor a
. 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 . ajor, and re-entered the service as a Brigadier General in the Mexican War he at first commanded troops andthen was made Commissary General of General Zach-ary Taylors army, and achieved a very high reputa-tion in that capacity. He was a warm friend of Gen-eral Taylor, and one day, at dinner, he told of a callhe made upon Taylor a short time after he was in-augurated President. When he entered the room,Taylor excused himself from all others and tookMajor Patrick into an inner room, where he threw hisarm about his neck and said: Deacon, they are killing me. I ought nt to haveaccepted the nomination. They besiege me all of thehours of the day and night for office, office! office!!and they are insatiable. I have no adaptability forsuch work, as you know, and I cant stand it. Theycome to me without knowing what they want and with-out the slightest conception as to my power to granttheir request, and they are impudent and big man came in this morning and said, I was a. -^^ Provost Marshal General JNI. R. Patrick WAR-TIME FRIENDS 89 leading singer in your campaign, Old Zach, and I havecome down here to get an office. Well, I said, * Iam afraid there are many more desiring offices thanthere are offices to be given. What place do youwant? Oh, I dont care. Any good place. Well,what will you take and be satisfied ? * I will takeanything from a Cabinet office dow^n to a pair of yourold breeches, Old Zach. General Taylor did breakdown and die soon after. During the war in Mexico General Patrick estab-lished bakeries to make bread and he used Mexicanflour, rations being based upon weight of a standardadopted for the United States army, but he found thatthe Mexican flour made more bread than Americ
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