But how marvellously God helped The General by means of those very oppositions! They brought us into close touch with bodies of young fellows, many of whom have since become leaders amongst us.
Strange and sad that throughout all the years of our most desperate fighting we scarcely ever found men from the "better classes" daring to march with us.

One noble exception, Colonel Pepper, of Salisbury, with his wife, never hesitated, in the roughest times, to take their stand with their humblest comrades, glad to go through whatever came.

To Mrs.
Pepper The General wrote in 1880:-- "The Colonel will have sent you some information of our Meetings.
But any real description is impossible.

Manchester has, in many respects, surpassed everything.

The Colonel, himself, has pleased me immensely--so humble and willing.