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main with me for fourteen days until I can find an
officer that can in some way fill your place.” “Gladly/7
responded the major, faced about and walked out. In
two weeks he returned and asked General Sherman,
“Will you now let me go?” With genuine sadness,
the general replied, “I suppose I mu3t comply with
your wishes. But I am going to ask of you one more
favor. Instead of being mustered out here and
returning to your home direct, I desire you to take these
dispatches—they are important and I cannot trust them
to any one else—to Washington and hand them to the
secretary of war; and here is a letter to the president,
which you must hand to him in person. You know how
to secure transportation. After attending to these
matters in Washington you can there he mustered out, draw
your pay and get your mileage home. Godspeed to
\ a, major; I am almost heart broken.”
Having arrived at Washington, Major Stolbrand at
once repaired to the war office, handed over the
dispatches to the secretary of war and, hastening to the
White House, requested an interview with the
president. This was granted at once and he handed General
Sherman’s letter to the president. Mr. Lincoln opened
it, and while reading, looked up from the letter at
Stolbrand, saying: “Well, general!” Stolbrand, saluting,
remarked, “I am not a general, Mr. President, I am a
major!” “But, I say you are a general,” and Mr.
Lincoln immediately turned around to his desk, took out
a blank commission and signed it. His secretary
speedily completed the document, creating Stolbrand a
brigadier, while the president chatted pleasantly with his new
general regarding himself and General Sherman.
Handing General Stolbrand his commission, the president
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