She there on her mission of mercy as she came to the front with supplies for the sick and wounded; I there simply to give the general a glimpse of his dear ones (some of the children being always with me). And I would gladly have joined Mrs. Wittenmyer in all her works of devotion; but the general forbade it, saying, when I returned from the hospitals ladened with petitions and heart-breaking stories, “Julia, cease, cease; I cannot listen; I hear this all day, every day, and I must have some rest from all this sorrow and misery. If you insist on going again to the hospitals, I will have to send you home.” Mrs. Wittenmyer was ever deeply interested in her efforts to relieve suffering; ever appealing for the discharge of the brave men who were made helpless by their wounds; ever braving dangers and enduring hardships in the performance of her self-assumed, patriotic heart duties. I used to look upon this brave, heroic woman with profound respect and admiration, which, if it were possible, has grown the greater in the thirty years that have passed since then. JULIA DENT GRANT. 2108 R STREET, WASHINGTON, D.C., _Nov. 27, 1894_. CONTENTS. PAGE A Boy sent by Express, C. O. D. 5 A But’ful Guv’ment Mule 226 A Fighting Editor 86 A Painful Accident 128 A Perilous Ride 11 A Rich Reward for Services--Saving the Life of a Brother 72 A Terrible Storm at Chattanooga 51 A Visit from General Grant and General McPherson 174 A Visit to Parson Brownlow 68 A Visit to Captain Walke’s Gunboat 190 A Woman wounded in Battle 17 A Young Nurse at Gettysburg 224 Army Life at Helena, Arkansas 48 Army Tricks 41 Blowing up of Fort Hill 102 Braving Dangers 21 Bursting of a Shell behind my Carriage 131 Could you get me a Raw Onion and some Salt? 230 Exhibitions of Mother-love 142 Fred D. Grant--The Brave Orderly at Vicksburg 204 General Grant’s Kindness 43 Getting Two Thousand Sick and Wounded out of Helena 106 Hardships of Camp-life at Vicksburg 125 Healed Soul and Body 152