FOOTNOTES:
[B] Don Juan was a horse captured by our soldiers during the war, and bought, as was the custom, by the General, for the appraised value of a contract horse. It was the horse that ran away with him at the grand review, and it afterward died in Michigan.
[C] An abbreviation of the General's second name, Armstrong, given him by his elder sister's children, when they were too young to pronounce the full name Armstrong.
[D] I never liked hunting when the game was killed, and I was relieved to find how often the hare rabbit escaped into the thickets.