October 29, 1864
Having been seized
with a powerful suspicion that the valiant Frenchmen would fain squat, to speak
in Western phrase, at our Headquarters, I applied my entire mind to shipping
them; for, as a travelled man, it was a matter of pride not to be put upon by a
brace of such chaps. So I lay [in] wait till they said they would like to see
General de Trobriand, and then? hastened to place them on horseback and give an
orderly as a guide and tenderly shake hands with them, grieving I should not
have the delight of seeing them again! There was a look about their intelligent
countenances that seemed to say: “Ah, you are not so soft as we thought,” as
they bid me a tender adieu.
SOURCE: George R. Agassiz, Editor, Meade’s
Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness
to Appomattox, p. 256
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