I then learned that the regiment to which the young soldier belonged had been ordered out to the Big Black River, and that all the sick in their regimental hospital had been brought with them to that point--there unloaded and reported to the hospital authorities. The attendants had come down and taken all but this one man, and had left him there to die alone. I was righteously indignant, and I denounced the whole proceeding as _inhuman and scandalous_. The surgeon and attendants were alarmed. “Such carelessness on the part of the surgeon, and brutality on the part of men charged with the care of the sick and wounded, were disgraceful!” I declared. It was not many minutes till the surgeon and attendants with a stretcher were at his side. Everything that could possibly be done for any one was done for him. The surgeons had hard work to save him, however. If I had passed him by unnoticed, they all agreed that he would have been dead by the next morning. Day after day as I drove about the lines I ministered to him till he was out of danger. Years passed before I had the privilege of seeing him again. Then he was a great stalwart man, and bore the title of Hon. E. M. Pike, member of the Senate of Illinois. He is now living at Chenoa, Ill., has a lovely wife and two children, a son and daughter full-grown. He has a large manufacturing establishment there, and is beloved and honored by all who know him. He has given good proof that he was well worth saving. A VISIT FROM GENERAL GRANT AND GENERAL McPHERSON. A few days after the surrender of Vicksburg, I called at General Grant’s headquarters on business. Generals McPherson and Rawlins were the only officials present with him. I was received most cordially, and inquiries were made by General Grant at once, as to whether the house he had assigned to me was comfortable and satisfactory. I assured him that it was, and spoke with great enthusiasm of the colored servants left in charge of the property by the owners, who had fled from Vicksburg before the siege. I was especially enthusiastic about the cook. “Why don’t you invite us up to test her cookery?” questioned General McPherson. I hardly knew what to say, as I had made it a rule to shun all appearances of social life. “Oh, you would not come; you are all too busy paroling prisoners,” I answered. “Oh, yes! we would certainly come if you should invite us. Is not that so, General Grant?” “I shall certainly come if invited,” was General Grant’s reply. “Then I most cordially invite you.” “When shall we come?” questioned General McPherson. “To-morrow, if that will suit you.” That being satisfactory, they agreed to come the next day at one o’clock, General Rawlins being included in the invitation, which he laughingly said, “We have given ourselves.”