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The next day I saw the official who had charge 

 of the making up of the city's quota, and easily 

 arranged for the examination of my candidate. 

 Dohna begged me to secure his admission to a 

 command whose officers would be able to appre- 

 ciate his difficult position, and a weary time I had 

 of it. At last it was all arranged ; he had passed, 

 with much shock to his sensibilities, the surgeon's 

 examination, and had been enrolled in a company 

 of Regular Infantry, whose captain (then serving 

 on the general staff of the department) had ac- 

 quired a sympathy for him not less than my own. 

 His bounty (over seven hundred dollars) he put 

 into my hands, and he went with me to Adams's 

 Express office, where we sent more than half the 

 sum to St. Louis, — the full amount of his indebt- 

 edness. One specified trunk was to be sent to 

 the Everett House, and the rest of his luggage — 

 which Voisin had described as valuable — to me. 

 I received by an early mail the receipt of the St. 

 Louis express-office for it, and found it most con- 

 venient to let it lie for the present, addressed to 

 me personally, at the office in New York. It 



