Lieut.-Col. Richard B. Irwin, U. S. V.
Fall of Port Hudson, 1863
Defeat of Lew Wallace by Early at the Monocacy, Maryland, 1864
Alexander Doniphan, “the Xenophon of America,” born 1808
July Tenth
MAMMY’S FIRST EXPERIENCE AT THE ’PHONE
We heard Mammy say “Hello—H’llo!
(What meks you rattle de handle so?)
Is dat you, Miss?—wants Main twenty-free!
(I ain’t gwine to have you foolin’ wid me!)
I say, Main twenty——what’s ailin’ you?
‘Bizzy!’ I guess I’se bizzy, too!
You gim-me dat number twenty-free,
I’se bizzier ’n you ever dared ter be!”
Mary Johnson Blackburn
July Eleventh