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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 



