Have been carved for many a year
On the tomb,"
but the survivors "close up" the broken ranks, and still preserve, in a marked degree, the esprit du corps which belonged to
"The days that are no more."
CHAPTER X.
"BOB WHEAT."
The Boy and the Man.
(Communicated.)
In the early summer of 1846, after the victories of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, the United States Army, under General Zachary Taylor, lay near the town of Matamoras. Visiting the hospital quarters of a recently-joined volunteer corps from "the States," I remarked a bright-eyed youth of some nineteen years, wan with disease, but cheery withal. The interest he inspired led to his removal to army headquarters, where he soon recovered health and became a pet. This was "Bob Wheat," son of an Episcopal clergyman, and he had left school to come to the war. He next went to Cuba with Lopez, was wounded and captured, but escaped the garroters to follow General Walker to Nicaragua.