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Ocean to Ocean on Horseback: Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the JourneyGlazier, Willard W.

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Ocean to Ocean on Horseback: Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey

Name: Ocean to Ocean on Horseback: Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey
Author: Glazier, Willard W.

Glazier, Willard W.

United States -- Description and travel

COMRADE: Through your unsolicited generosity I have the pleasure to
    acknowledge the receipt of the net proceeds of your lecture on
    "Echoes from the Revolution," delivered in our city July 6, 1876,
    and by your direction have forwarded the amount to Chaplain William
    Earnshaw, President of the "Soldiers' Home Monument Fund," at
    Dayton, to assist in erecting a monument to the memory of the
    veterans who by the fortunes of war await the long roll at the
    National Military Home, and may your reward be no less than the love
    and gratitude of our unfortunate comrades.

                               By order of
                                 GENERAL JAMES BARNETT, _Commanding_.
  E. M. HESSLER, _Quartermaster_.

There are certain results following every undertaking which are looked
upon either with gratification or dissatisfaction, and which, through
side issues, very often assume the importance of those desired to be
attained. The recollection of the splendid scenes through which I have
passed, the people whom I have met, the cities I have visited, will be a
lifelong satisfaction, but the opportunity to help perpetuate the memory
of fellow-soldiers and to do others honor while they yet live, will be
the most gratifying outcome of my journey. Knowing this, the following
letter from Chaplain Earnshaw holds an important place among the papers
of my correspondents.

                                        _National Soldiers' Home_,
                                       DAYTON, OHIO, _July 27, 1876_.

    CAPTAIN WILLARD GLAZIER,

    MY DEAR COMRADE: We have received, through Major E. M. Hessler, your
    generous donation to aid in erecting the Soldiers' Monument at the
    Home. You have the hearty thanks of three thousand disabled veterans
    now on our rolls; and a cordial invitation to visit us whenever it
    is your pleasure to do so. Again, we thank you.

                                Very respectfully,
                                                    WILLIAM EARNSHAW,
                         President Historical and Monumental Society.

[Illustration: A COTTAGE IN THE WOODS.]

On leaving the city several gentlemen gave me the pleasure of their
company for some distance, among them Alexander Wilsey, who before
the war had been a scholar of mine back in Schodack, New York.

Meeting him was only one of many similar experiences, for here and there
along my route I found old acquaintances, whose faces I had never
expected to see again.

After a ride of six hours, I rode into Black River and found it quite an
enterprising village, but hardly suggesting its old position as the
principal port in the county.


Sixty-second Day.

                                                       _Huron House_,
                                                        HURON, OHIO,
                                                      _July Twelfth_.

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