No doubt the speech was full of fact and argument, but it had none of the fire of oratory, or intensity of feeling, that marked all of Mr.Clay's efforts.
Toward the end of July, as before stated, all the family went home to Lancaster.

Congress was still in session, and the bill adding four captains to the Commissary Department had not passed, but was reasonably certain to, and I was equally sure of being one of them.
At that time my name was on the muster-roll of (Light) Company C, Third Artillery (Bragg's), stationed at Jefferson Barracks, near St.Louis.

But, as there was cholera at St.Louis, on application, I was permitted to delay joining my company until September.

Early in that month, I proceeded to Cincinnati, and thence by steamboat to St.Louis, and then to Jefferson Barracks, where I reported for duty to Captain and Brevet-Colonel Braxton Bragg, commanding (Light) Company C, Third Artillery.

The other officers of the company were First-Lieutenant James A.Hardie, and afterward Haekaliah Brown.