. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . S. — All our available cavalry forces are in jiursuit of Hunt, Assistant Adjutant-General,General Heintzelmans Headquarters. AMERICAN HEROISM. 367 GENERAL W. H. LYTLE.* By Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston, of the Confederate Army. A YEAR or two before the war I was traveling on a boat down the OhioRiver from Louisville, when a gentleman accosted me politely and asked ifmy name was not Lytle. Ipon informing him that
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . S. — All our available cavalry forces are in jiursuit of Hunt, Assistant Adjutant-General,General Heintzelmans Headquarters. AMERICAN HEROISM. 367 GENERAL W. H. LYTLE.* By Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston, of the Confederate Army. A YEAR or two before the war I was traveling on a boat down the OhioRiver from Louisville, when a gentleman accosted me politely and asked ifmy name was not Lytle. Ipon informing him that it was not, I learned thathe had mistaken me for William H. Lytle, who was then Democratic candi-date for Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, the late Henry B. Payne. United StatesSenator LSS5-91, being candidate for governor on the same ticket. Beingof the same politics, and knowing Lytle by reputation as a rising youngpolitician and as the author of I am dying, Egypt, dying, I had from thattime no little curiosity to meet ^^& ^^^^^- ^ little doubted but that, in the interchange of social ^^^^^fc and political courtesies which to Ohio than any of our. bound Kentucky closerother border neighbors,pleasure. But I missedfailing to accompanytucky in the winter of 1860the invitation of the legis- Little did I then thinkhim under circumstancesthose which marked Inover the morea century whichit .seems difficult,who participated .that day, to real-horrors of warwhich then prevailed,cult must it be for thesprung up since to un-mystery of war so sud-tween friends, to be followed, afterapparently more profound than ever. It was destined that I should not meet Lytle in peace. The cyclone ofwar burst upon the country. Lytle. a Democrat, who lost promotion at thepolls, was one of the earliest volunteers, and I soon heard of him favorably General W. H. Lytle. four years of I should soon have thatthe only opportunity bythe legislature of Ken-when it visited Ohio at
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