I therefore bade adieu to all my friends, and about the 25th of February took my departure by railroad, for Lancaster, via Cairo and Cincinnati.
Before leaving this subject, I will simply record the fate of some of my associates.

The seminary was dispersed by the war, and all the professors and cadets took service in the Confederacy, except Yallas, St.Ange, and Cadet Taliaferro.

The latter joined a Union regiment, as a lieutenant, after New Orleans was retaken by the United States fleet under Farragut.

I think that both Yallas and St.Ange have died in poverty since the war.

Major Smith joined the rebel army in Virginia, and was killed in April, 1865, as he was withdrawing his garrison, by night, from the batteries at Drury's Bluff, at the time General Lee began his final retreat from Richmond.