X CONTENT^, 



Republic — Introduction by Captain Theodore L. Kelly— Refer* 

 ence to Army and Prison Experiences — Newspaper Comment^ 

 Proceeds of Lecture Given to Posts 7 and 15 — Letter to Adjutant- 

 General of Department ,66 



CHAPTER IV. 



BOSTON TO ALBANY. 



First Day of Journey — Start from the Revere House — Escorted to 

 Brighton by G. A. R. Comrades — Dinner at Cattle Fair Hotel — 

 South Framingham — Second Day — Boston and Albany Turnpike 

 — Riding in a Rainstorm — Arrival at Worcester — Lecture in Opera 

 House — Pioneer History — Rapid Growth of Worcester — Lincoln 

 Park — The Old Common — Third and Fourth Days — The Ride to 

 Springfield — Met by Wife and Daughter — Lecture at Haynes 

 Opera House — Fifth Day — Ride to Russell — The Berkshire Hills 

 — Sixth Day — Journey to Becket — Rainbow Reflections — Seventh 

 Day — Over the Hoosac Mountains — Eighth Day — Arrival at 

 Pittsfield — Among the Lebanon Shakers — Ninth Day — Reach 

 Nassau, New York 75 



CHAPTER V. 



FOUR DAYS AT ALBANY. 



Kassau to Albany — Among Old Friends in Rensselaer County — 

 Thoughts of Rip Van Winkle — Crossing the Hudson — Albany as 

 Seen from the River — Schoolday Associations — Early History — 

 Settled by the Dutch— Henry Hudson — Killian Van Rensselaer— 

 Fort Orange — Peter Schuyler and Robert Livingstone — Lecture at 

 Tweddle Hall— Call at the Capitol— Meet Army Comrades . 120 



CHAPTER VI. 



ALBANY TO SYRACUSE. 



Fourteenth Day— On the Schenectady Turnpike— Riding between 

 Showers— Talk with Peter Lansing— Reach Schenectady— Lecture 

 at Union Hall under G. A. R. Ausp\c*is— Fifteenth and Sixteenth 

 Days— Go over to Troy— Lecture at Harmony Hall— Visit Old 

 Friends— Seve7iteenth Day^Ueturn to Schenectady— Eighteenth 

 Day— In the Mohawk Valley— Halt at Amsterdam— Reach Fonda 

 — Nineteenth Day — Saint Johnsville — Twentieth Day— Little 

 Falls — Twenty-first Day — Vtica,—Twe7ity-second Day— Rome— 

 Twenty-third Day — Chittenango 132 



CHAPTER VII. 



TWO DAYS AT SYRACUSE. 

 Walks and Talks with the People— Early History— Lake Onondaga— 



