250 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. 



was used for the confinement of Confederate officers 

 during the late war. I learned that they were al- 

 lowed the luxury of an occasional bath in the lake, 

 under guard, of course, and in squads of a hundred 

 men — a luxury which the boys in Libby and Charles- 

 ton and Columbia would have thought " too good to 

 be true." 



Under the city are the limestone quarries, which 

 furnish an inexhaustible supply of building material 

 and which give an added distinction to this bright 

 little city of the lakes. 



On the evening of my arrival I spoke in Union 

 Hall and was introduced by Captain Culver, who re- 

 ferred to my military record and the object of ray 

 lectures. Captain Culver is a comrade in the G. A. 

 K. and was a fellow-prisoner at Libby and other pris- 

 ons. He did much towards making ray stay at San- 

 dusky most agreeable. 



Fountain House, 

 Castalia, Ohio, 



July Fourteenth. 



My Sandusky friend. Captain Culver, called at the 

 West House for me soon after breakfast, and we spent 

 the forenoon strolling about the city. I was shown 

 the newly completed Court House, of which San- 

 duskians are very proud ; met several of the offi- 

 cials and found much to admire. Left at five o'clock 

 in the afternoon and by six had reached Castalia, five 

 miles distant, which I soon found had something to 

 boast of back of its classic name. As a stranger I 



