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He has been expecting something like a song of Patti accompanied on the piano by Paderewski. It was an American poetess Mrs. Piatt who informed the skylark: The song thou sang'st to Shelley was not half So sweet as that which Shelley sang to thee! After all, birds repeat themselves sadly they strike one note, like a minor poet, and live on the reputation of their first success.
Vance easily held the enemy at bay at Armstrong's Creek, and Siber marched his column, next morning, to Brownstown, some twenty-five miles below Kanawha Falls, where steamboats met him and ferried him over to Camp Piatt. There he rejoined Lightburn.
The mount of Captain William Piatt, chief quartermaster of the expedition, and four horses from Busseron had just been stolen, and all further dissimulation on the part of the savages was without avail. The account of the march, as recorded by Captain John Tipton, is exceedingly interesting.
This was the winter when my friend Piatt and I made our first literary venture together in those 'Poems of Two Friends; which hardly passed the circle of our amity; and it was altogether a time of high literary exaltation with me.
By legislative enactment, five times since its organization, valuable portions of McLean aggregating nearly four-sevenths of its original territory have been carved in the formation of the counties of Logan, Livingston, Piatt, De Witt, and Woodford.
With the army and its camp-followers, there came a number of literati to accept clerical positions in the Departments. At the Treasury one could see the veteran Dr. Pierpont, George Wood, O'Connor, Piatt, Chilton, and Dr. Elder, all hopefully engaged in signing, cutting, or recording Government notes and bonds.
I went home to Ohio; and sent on the bond I was to file in the Treasury Department; but it was mislaid there, and to prevent another chance of that kind I carried on the duplicate myself. It was on my second visit that I met the generous young Irishman William D. O'Connor, at the house of my friend Piatt, and heard his ardent talk.
Thence we went through Florence to Union, in Boone County, Kentucky, where we took supper with Daniel Piatt. On making ourselves known to Mr. Piatt, who had two sons in our command, we were treated with the most cordial hospitality and kindness by the entire family. We there met Dr. John J. Dulaney of Florence, Kentucky, who was of great benefit in giving us information as to the best route.
A halt was then ordered, and majors Piatt, Clark and Taylor, were sent to examine this creek, as well as the river above the town, to ascertain the correctness of the information, and decide on the best ground for an encampment.
Don Piatt relates that he had met Lincoln during the Presidential campaign, and had been invited to visit Springfield. He did so, and was asked to supper at the Lincoln house. "It was a plain, comfortable structure," says Mr. Piatt, "and the supper was mainly of cake, pies, and chickens, the last evidently killed in the morning, to be eaten that evening.
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