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diversions of his officers when off duty and did not disapprove a treak of wildness and dash in our recreations. The cultivation of a luxuriant crop of wild oats in his youth terminated by an early appointment in the Army by President Andrew Jackson had interfered with the Colonels education and his literary enjoyments were now mostly limited to Porter's Spirit of the Times and "Charley O'Malley or the Irish Dragoon?." He kept a file of the former and read the latter once a year. He was an undisputed authority on horses and all that pertained to racing as well as a referee? of all wagers. Social life to him was nothing if not that of a high living clerk. He ha been bred to army life in the old Second Dragoons und Twiggs with such men as