CHAPTER IV. 



BOSTON TO ALBANY. 



iirst !Baj3. 



South Framingham House, 

 South Framingham, Massachusetts, 



3Iay 9, 1876. 



|HE initial step in my journey from 

 Ocean to Ocean was taken at ten o'clock 

 on the morning of the above date when 

 I mounted my horse in front of the 

 Revere House, Boston, and started for 

 Worcester, w^here it had been announced 

 I would lecture on the following even- 

 ing. The Revere House was fixed 

 upon by comrades of the G. A. R. as 

 a rendezvous before starting. Here I found a large 

 gathering of the Order. A rain storm setting in as I 

 put my foot into the stirrup, hasty adieus were said 

 to the Boys in Blue and others as I was about riding 

 away from the " Revere.'^ 



I was escorted to Bunker Hill and thence to 

 Brighton by many comrades and friends, among them 

 Colonels John F. Finley and E. A. Williston, who 

 were mounted ; and Captain Charles W. Thompson, 

 adjutant-general Department of Massachusetts ; Cap- 

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