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enjoyable. We were made to feel glad that we had met wherever a meeting might have taken place, whether in their own homes, at the theatre or elsewhere. Speaking of the play, I remember that pretty much all of us at that time were enamored of Agnes Robertson a youn beautiful and captivating actress.

As young cavalrymen we enjoyed an uncommon advantage in witnessing the "Setting up" and mounting of the 2d Cavalry. There was probably never a better officered regiment placed in the field. The subsequent history of most of its officers became sufficiently remarkable to justify me in recalling some of their names. Its Colonel was Albert Sidney Johnston, its Lieut Colonel, Robert E. Lee, its Majors William J. Hardee and George H. Thomas. Among its captains were E. Kirby Smith, James Oakes, Innis N. Palmer, George Stoneman, Thomas O'Harn, Brackett?, Thomas Whiting and Earl Van Dorn. Kenner Garrard was 1st Lieut and Adjutant. Other 1st Lieuts were Richard W. Johnson, C.W. Field, Chamliss, Royal and Jenifer?. John B. Hood and W.W. Low? were among the second lieutenants. J.B. Wheeler and Van Camp of my class were at the foot of the Seconds.

Following is a part lined out a single ? of the decade which followed this date these officers who were ? united in purpose, zeal and esprit de corps had witnessed the rise and fall of the Southern Confederacy. Some of them had led great armies to its destruction and others