. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . CUT LOGIC, ETC. Y SON, always do your full duty! Nevertrifle with a young girls affections, myboy!—were the parting words receivedfrom my respective parents, as on theseventh day of September—a day of themonth dear to memory—in the year 1863, Ileft my parental home to go to Williamstown, Mass., topass examination for admission to the century-old WilliamsCollege, located in that place, having been prepared underthe care of excellent private tutors with the understandingthat I was to enter the sophomore class, but I was not atthe time p
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . CUT LOGIC, ETC. Y SON, always do your full duty! Nevertrifle with a young girls affections, myboy!—were the parting words receivedfrom my respective parents, as on theseventh day of September—a day of themonth dear to memory—in the year 1863, Ileft my parental home to go to Williamstown, Mass., topass examination for admission to the century-old WilliamsCollege, located in that place, having been prepared underthe care of excellent private tutors with the understandingthat I was to enter the sophomore class, but I was not atthe time particularly desirous of entering college, as themartial spirit had a strong hold upon my mind. However,my father thought that his oldest son was sufficient for hisquota, and so pacified me somewhat with his permissionto also enlist in the Union army in case of my inability togain admission to college. Fate reserved me for fields ofpeace, as all the several examinations were successful, andI entered as a full-fledged sophomore, in one of the staidest. Civil-war Echoes — Character and most conservative educational institutions in the UnitedStates. At the end of the fall term, by my fathers invitation, Iproceeded to Washington, D. C, there to act as his privatesecretary and clerk of the Senate Committee on PacificRailroads, of which he had recently been selected as chair-man ; the room of said committee being on the gallery floorof the Senate, and of large dimensions, as that committeewas at the time the greatest in point of numbers and oneof the most important in the character of its work and itsmembership. It included as its members John Sherman, ofOhio, subsequently Secretary of the Treasury and Secretaryof State; Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, afterward Vice-president ; ex-Governor Edwin D. Morgan, of New York;John Conness, of California; James Harlan, of Iowa, after-ward President Lincolns Secretary of the Interior; ReverdyJohnson, of Maryland, afterward U. S. Minist
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