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foreign officers came out to visit us. Two or three 

 of the newspaper men, including Richard Harding 

 Davis, Caspar Whitney, and John Fox, had already 

 been out to see us, and had been in the trenches dur- 

 ing the firing. Among the others were Captains 

 Lee and Paget of the British army and navy, fine 

 fellows, who really seemed to take as much pride 

 in the feats of our men as if we had been bound 

 together by the ties of a common nationality instead 

 of the ties of race and speech kinship. Another Eng- 

 lish visitor was Sir Bryan Leighton, a thrice-wel- 

 come guest, for he most thoughtfully brought to me 

 half a dozen little jars of deviled ham and potted 

 fruit, which enabled me to summon various officers 

 down to my tent and hold a feast. Count von 

 Gotzen, and a Norwegian attache, Gedde, very good 

 fellows both, were also out. One day we were vis- 

 ited by a traveling Russian, Prince X., a large, 

 blond man, smooth and impenetrable. I introduced 

 him to one of the regular army officers, a capital 

 fighter and excellent fellow, who, however, viewed 

 foreign international politics from a strictly trans- 

 Mississippi standpoint. He hailed the Russian with 

 frank kindness and took him off to show him around 

 the trenches, chatting volubly, and calling him 

 "Prince," much as Kentuckians call one another 

 "Colonel." As I returned I heard him remarking: 

 "You see, Prince, the great result of this war is that 



