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They are going to be married as sure as my name isn't in a bank-book; and if signs are anything, it's going to be soon. Miss Bray is better, though she looks pretty bad still. She's been awfully excited about Uncle Parke's coming, and she says she hears he's very distinguished and real rich. Isn't it strange how quick some people hear about riches? I don't know anything of his having any.
He prefaced almost everything he said with, "When I was High Sheriff," so I asked him innocently enough how many times he had been High Sheriff, on which my host, being a quick-witted man, looked at him with a broad grin, while he balanced the nutcrackers on his forefinger. "Well," said Fullerton, "it was in Parke's time." "Yes; but which of them?" I asked. "Are you alluding to Sir Alan?
Frank was with his company, where we left him, when suddenly yells rent the air; and, looking, he saw the Zouaves of Parke's brigade dashing down the causeway in front of the rebel redoubt. They were met by a murderous fire. They returned it as they charged.
On the ride he had been quietly attentive, making no show of curiosity, asking few questions, carrying himself in an unpretentious business-like way. In the social meeting at General Parke's I was disappointed that the conversation did not take the direction of a military discussion. Grant did not seem to desire further information, but was satisfied with what he had seen.
Fortunately we had no dinner engagement on that day, and we are to meet also the Miss Berrys; Horace Walpole's Miss Berrys, who with Lady Charlotte herself, are the last remnants of the old school here. LETTER: To I.P.D. February 21st I have seen her twice this week at Baron Parke's and at Lord Campbell's, and told her how much I had wished to do so before, and on what account.
I reconnoitred the whole country, from Haines's Bluff to the railroad bridge, and posted the troops thus: Parke's two divisions from Haines's Bluff out to the Benton or ridge road; Tuttle's division, of my corps, joining on and extending to a plantation called Young's, overlooking Bear Creek valley, which empties into the Big Black above Messinger's Ferry; then McArthurs division, of McPherson's corps, took up the line, and reached to Osterhaus's division of McClernand's corps, which held a strong fortified position at the railroad-crossing of the Big Black River.
On the 14th General Parke arrived with two divisions of Burnside's corps, and was immediately dispatched to Haines' Bluff. These latter troops Herron's and Parke's were the reinforcements already spoken of sent by Halleck in anticipation of their being needed. They arrived none too soon. I now had about seventy-one thousand men.
Grant at Knoxville Comes to Strawberry Plains A gathering at Parke's quarters Grant's quiet manner No conversational discussion Contrast with Sherman Talk of cadet days Grant's riding-school story No council of war Qualities of his dispatches Returns by Cumberland Gap Longstreet's situation Destitution of both armies Railroad repairs and improved service Light-draught steamboats Bridges Cattle herds on the way Results of Grant's inspection tour Foster's movement to Dandridge on the French Broad Sheridan His qualities August Willich Hazen His disagreement with Sheridan Its causes and consequences Combat at Dandridge A mutual surprise Sheridan's bridge An amusing blunder A consultation in Dandridge Sturgis's toddy Retreat to Strawberry Plains A hard night march A rough day An uncomfortable bivouac Concentration toward Knoxville Rumors of reinforcement of Longstreet Expectation of another siege The rumors untrue.
On the 18th of January General Foster's plans were unsettled by a dispatch received from General Grant, dated at Nashville on the 16th, but in some manner delayed in transmittal. It reached Foster just as he had Parke's report of our having most unexpectedly met Longstreet's infantry at Dandridge and of our retreat on Strawberry Plains.
You see, when they know about a man that he somehow don't mind bullets and will go straight to where he's sent, they're very apt to get him killed. At the first shot he ought to have tumbled off and played possum till it was dark." "But then," said Leila, "he would have been too late with General Parke's message." "Of course, Master John couldn't sham dead like I would.
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