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the levee was well and quite expensively dressed; that is, her laces were fine, worth two thousand dollars, and she told a lady she hardly felt it right to wear them in these times, although they were a present. They were delighted with Mrs. McClellan; heard Charles Sumner's speech which was read and not exciting; and said the Senate Chamber looked quite pathetic with half the seats vacant. ... In Baltimore they stayed with the Bowens; he is Unitarian minister there and married Annie Gilmspect, and confessed, Used to dance — and t'ings. What the t'ings were, which came in as milder etcetera after the one great remorse of dancing, we shall never know. Have I ever said what is the favorite reading-primer of our drummer boys? McClellan's Bayonet Exercises. Large type, short words, subject intelligible, pictures fascinating; it contains all merits. Ac-vance, retreat, leap to de front, leap to de rear, and so on. Think of the great dethroned idol, banished from all other temp
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249. Lincoln, Abraham, 164; and Fremont, 160; anecdote of, 202; death, 236. Lincoln, Mrs., Abraham, 165; described, 164; about the President's death, 236. Lind, Jenny, marriage of, 39, 40. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8; accounts of, 11, 12, 321; portrait of children of, 107. Longfellow, Samuel, 47-49. Lowell, James Russell, 8, 94. 113; evening with, 11-13; at Atlantic dinners, 107-12; as editor, 111; anecdote of, 262, 263. Lowell, Maria, sketch of, 12,13, 111. M McClellan, Gen., 271. McDougall, Bishop, 292, 293. Maggi, Lt.-Col., anecdote of, 212. Malbone, 253. May, Samuel, 4. Miller, Joaquin, in England, 287. Millerites, the, account of, 51. Milne, Mr., 96; invites Lucy Stone to lecture, 98. Monarch of Dreams, 335, 336. Montgomery, Col., James, in Civil War, 186, 188-91, 206-09. Morton, Edward, 115. Mott, Lucretia, 272. Moulton, Mrs. L. C., in Newport, 228; in London, 287. Mt. Katahdin, excursion to; 117-20. Murfree, Miss (C. E. Cradd