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the government to discriminate in that way. 

 The Confederates were just as sincere as the 

 Union men ; and anyhow, vengeance ought 

 not to follow a man after he was dead. 

 Evidently he had fought against an army 

 and a cause, not against individuals. 



When the rain was over, or substantially 

 so, I proposed to improve an hour of cool- 

 ness and freshness by paying another visit 

 to headquarters; but my Indiana veteran 

 was not to be enticed out of shelter. It was 

 still rather wet, he thought. " I 'm pretty 

 careful of my body," he added, by way of 

 settling the matter. It had been through 

 so much, I suppose, that he esteemed it 

 precious. 



I set out alone, therefore, and this time 

 went into the Dyer house, after drinking 

 from a covered spring across the way. But 

 there was little to see inside, and the three 

 or four officers and clerks were occupied 

 with maps and charts, — courteous, no doubt, 

 but with official and counting-house courtesy ; 

 men of whom you could well enough ask a 

 definite question, but with whom it would be 

 impossible to drift into random talk. There 

 was far better company outside. Even while 



