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IS 4.2
Story of an Emigrant.
I feel sad or despondent, all I need do is to walk along the camp street
and tnke a look at some of my old Scandinavians. Their cahn and earnest
demeanor always makes me glad and prond. I ask for no greater honor
than to j>oint them out to some stranger, saying: ’This is my old
company.’
"Not these alone, however, but all of my countrymen whom I met in
the army have a good name, and arc considered most reliable and able
soldiers."
I shall now relate a couple of anecdotes from the siege of
Vicksburg, which I did not mention in the letter to
Hem-landet.
grant’s headquarters.
Outside Gen. Logan’s tent stood a big magnolia tree.
While laughing at Logan’s joke Gen. Stevenson picked up a
little stick of wood and whittled on it with his penknife, in
genuine Yankee fashion. Accidentlv he dropped his knife,
and, while stooping down to pick it up, a fragment of a
shell from the rebel batteries came and went two inches deep
into the tree close to where his head had been when lie was
whittling. He coolly remarked, "That piece of iron was not
made for me."
One day as T, in company with Lieut. Col. (afterward
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