. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . lonely voice was like the hollow reeds That rustle in the gale : T is lonelier in my castle, said The knight in silver mail. He let his steed go riderless. He took her by the handAnd led her over brake and brier Into a lonesome land. Oh, are they all a-row That glimmer in the vale? My castle-walls are white, replied The knight in silver mail. So close unto thy castle-doors Why buryest thou the dead ? For ten long years I ve slept with them Ah, welcome home ! he clasped her dainty waist around. And in the moonlig
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . lonely voice was like the hollow reeds That rustle in the gale : T is lonelier in my castle, said The knight in silver mail. He let his steed go riderless. He took her by the handAnd led her over brake and brier Into a lonesome land. Oh, are they all a-row That glimmer in the vale? My castle-walls are white, replied The knight in silver mail. So close unto thy castle-doors Why buryest thou the dead ? For ten long years I ve slept with them Ah, welcome home ! he clasped her dainty waist around. And in the moonlight paleUpraised his visor, and she saw The knight in silver mail. At dawn her fathers men-at-arms Went searching everywhere,And found her with the churchyard dews A-sparkle in her lo ! a sight to make the best And bravest of them her in the tangled grass, A skeleton in mail. Minna Irving. Vol. XXXVI.—78. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY*TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY. BY JOHN G. NICOLAY AXD JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE HALLECK. N sending General Hunterto relieve Fremont, thePresident did not intendthat he should remain incharge of the Departmentof the West. Out of its vastextent the Department ofKansas was created a kwdays afterward, embracing the State of Kan-sas, the Indian Territory, and the Territoriesof Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota, with head-quarters at Fort Leavenworth, and Hunter wastransferred to its command. General Halleckwas assigned to the Department of the Mis-souri, embracing the States of Missouri, Iowa,Minnesota, Wisconsin, lUinois, Arkansas, andthat portion of Kentucky west of the Cumber-land River. Henry Wager Halleck was born in OneidaCounty, New York, January 15, 1815. Edu-cated at Union College, he entered the mili-tary academy at West Point, where he grad-uated third in a class of thirty-one, andwas made second lieutenant of engineersJuly I, 1839. While yet a cadet he was em-ployed at the academy as assistant professorof en
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