reading in camp, and I trust to Captain Nott, to turn your memory
back to the companionship and the incidents of the months which we
passed together, in the valley of the Obion River.
Very truly, yours,
GEORGE E. WARING, JR.
To Capt. HUNN HANSON, A. D. C.
H'd Q'rs 16th Army Corps, Mobile Bay.
_New York Evening Post._
A GOOD BOOK AND A GOOD DEED.
In the early part of the war Mr. Charles C. Nott, a lawyer in this
city, received from General Fremont the appointment of captain of
cavalry in a Western regiment. Soon after his entrance into active
service he began a series of letters to one of our great public
schools, of which he had previously been a trustee. These letters were
read in school, were copied and recopied for manuscript circulation,
and were at length published during their author's absence, under the
title of "Sketches of the War." The first edition met with a ready
sale, and when Captain (now Colonel) Nott returned from a year's
imprisonment in Texas, he found that it was entirely exhausted. For
some months after his return the Colonel devoted his time to organizing
a Bureau of Employment for disabled soldiers, but on leaving it to
accept the appointment of Judge of the United States Court of Claims,
which the late President conferred upon him, he published a second
edition of his book, and presented it, with the stereotype plates
and five hundred copies, to the Executive Committee of the Bureau
of Employment, to be devoted exclusively to the aid of our disabled
veterans.
The following interesting correspondence took place in March last:
"NEW YORK, March 4, 1865.
"Messrs. HOWARD POTTER, WM. E. DODGE, JR., and THEODORE
ROOSEVELT, _Ex. Com. Protective War Claim Association_:
"GENTLEMEN:--Enclosed you will find an order on my
publisher for five hundred copies second edition "Sketches of the
War," an assignment of the copyright of that work, and an order
putting the stereotype plates at your disposal so long as you
may wish to continue the publication for the benefit of disabled
soldiers.
"I do this, trusting the sale may furnish to some of our greatest
sufferers temporary employment. I have also indulged the hope that
if our manufacturers should fail to furnish suitable employment
to men who have lost an arm or leg, or suffered some equal
disability, this little bequest of mine may lead to some similar
action on the part of other officers. There is a much stronger
tie between officers (who deserve that name) and soldiers than is
generally supposed to exist, and I am confident there are numbers
in New York who will come forward whenever the necessity is made
known to them, and do all in their power to aid those soldiers who
bear such unmistakable marks of their honorable service.
"I remain, gentlemen, very respectfully,
"CHARLES C. NOTT."
"Hon. C. C. NOTT, _Judge of Court of Claims, etc., etc._:
"DEAR SIR:--We have your valued favor of the 4th instant,
conveying to us an edition of your admirable 'Sketches of the
War,' with the copyright and stereotype plates of the same, for
the benefit of disabled soldiers applying for employment at our
bureau.
"We accept the trust most gratefully, the more so as evincing your
continued interest in the work you have so ably inaugurated.
"Congratulating you on the high position to which you have been
called, we are, very sincerely, yours,
"HOWARD POTTER,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
"WM. E. DODGE, JR.,
"_Executive Committee_."
"New York, March 14, 1885."
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SKETCHES IN PRISON CAMPS:
A CONTINUATION OF
Sketches of the War.
BY
CHARLES C. NOTT,
LATE COLONEL OF THE 176TH NEW YORK VOLS.
"On her bier,
Quiet lay the buried year;
I sat down where I could see,
Life without and sunshine free--
Death within!"
NEW-YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH,
770 BROADWAY, CORNER OF 9TH ST.
1865.