It Seems Quite Natural To Be In This Dear Old Hotel, Where All During
The Past Winter Our "Army And Navy Club" Cotillons Were Danced Every
Two Weeks.
And they were such beautiful affairs, with two splendid
military orchestras to furnish the music, one for the dancing and one
to give choice selections in between the figures.
We will carry with
us to the snow and ice of the Rocky Mountains many, many delightful
memories of New Orleans, where the French element gives a charm to
everything. The Mardi-Gras parades, in which the regiment has each
year taken such a prominent part - the courtly Rex balls - the balls of
Comus - the delightful Creole balls in Grunewald Hall - the stately and
exclusive balls of the Washington Artillery in their own splendid
hall - the charming dancing receptions on the ironclad monitor
Canonicus, also the war ship Plymouth, where we were almost afraid to
step, things were so immaculate and shiny - and then our own pretty
army fetes at Jackson Barracks - regimental headquarters - each and all
will be remembered, ever with the keenest pleasure.
But the event in the South that has made the deepest impression of all
occurred at Vicksburg, where for three weeks we lived in the same
house, en famille and intimately, with Jefferson Davis! I consider
that to have been a really wonderful experience. You probably can
recall a little of what I wrote you at the time - how we were boarding
with his niece in her splendid home when he came to visit her.
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