I recall a conversation at the tea-table, one evening, at the St.Louis Hotel.

When Bragg was speaking of Beauregard's promotion, Mrs.Bragg, turning to me, said, "You know that my husband is not a favorite with the new President." My mind was resting on Mr.Lincoln as the new President, and I said I did not know that Bragg had ever met Mr.Lincoln, when Mrs.Bragg said, quite pointedly, "I didn't mean your President, but our President." I knew that Bragg hated Davis bitterly, and that he had resigned from the army in 1855, or 1856, because Davis, as Secretary of War, had ordered him, with his battery, from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to Fort Smith or Fort Washita, in the Indian country, as Bragg expressed it, "to chase Indians with six-pounders." I visited the quartermaster, Colonel A.C.Myers, who had resigned from the army, January 28, 1861, and had accepted service under the new regime.

His office was in the same old room in the Lafayette Square building, which he had in 1853, when I was there a commissary, with the same pictures on the wall, and the letters "U.
S." on every thing, including his desk, papers, etc.

I asked him if he did not feel funny.

"No, not at all.