. 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 . A prominent citizen of Richmond once said to me: I suppose you folks think Betty Van Lew wasa Union woman purely from conviction and highprinciples. Certainly we do. Well, thats where you are mistaken. I haveknown her all her life, and her father was one of mybest friends and one of the best men in Richmond, butit is sheer contrariness on
. 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 . A prominent citizen of Richmond once said to me: I suppose you folks think Betty Van Lew wasa Union woman purely from conviction and highprinciples. Certainly we do. Well, thats where you are mistaken. I haveknown her all her life, and her father was one of mybest friends and one of the best men in Richmond, butit is sheer contrariness on her part. If she was to fallof¥ Mayos bridge into the river and drown, her bodywould float up the rapids to Lynchburg instead ofdown the river to Norfolk. But she is one of us, andwe are glad General Grant took care of her. It does 64 A CHAUTAUQUA BOY him credit, and we like him pretty well, too. Hetreated General Lee and our soldiers with such deli-cate consideration, and he did nt come into Richmondhimself with his bands playing, See! the ConqueringHero Comes. I think Miss Van Lews financial affairs becamemore satisfactory from the advance in value of thereal estate which she owned, but she held her clerk-ship until the Cleveland CommanclLT William B. Cushin<j D CHAPTER III WAR-TIME FRIENDS ^URING the war I frequently saw and kept intouch with a boyhood friend, Commander Gush-ing, of Albemarle fame. At Fredonia, in the earlyfifties, when I was a boy of ten or twelve years of age,Cushings mother, a widow, lived in the neighborhoodand had four sons and a daughter. I think the eldestson, Milton B., was already away from home in Wash-ington, a clerk in the Navy Department, where a rela-tive, Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, Chief of the Bureauof Yards and Docks, father of Captain Joseph Smith,Jr., who commanded the Congress when she was sunkby the Merrimac, had given him a clerkship. The nextson, Howard, went from home to Chicago about thattime, leaving Alonzo and
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