When a mere stripling, I first met my wife, and from that hour all the affection I possessed was hers.

Each day it grew stronger, and at the time I left New Orleans with my regiment, the love I bore my wife, and for her, my children, could not have been bartered for the wealth of California.
She was to me a dearer object than all else on earth, and more--" He could speak no longer, so overcome was he with emotion.

Once more wringing the doctor's hand, he left the room and entered the chamber of his wife.
"Unhappy man," exclaimed the doctor, when he was alone, "his is, indeed, a bitter grief, and one not easily obliterated." With these words the kind-hearted old gentleman retired to his study, greatly moved at the misfortunes of the family he had been brought in contact with.
The furloughs granted to Alfred and Harry had been renewed on the expiration of the time they had been granted for, but on the representation of Dr.Humphries, had been renewed.

At the time the above conversation took place, they were again nearly expired and Harry determined to appeal to the government once more for a second renewal.

Accordingly he took the cars for Richmond and obtaining an interview with the Secretary of War, he represented the condition of Mrs.Wentworth, and exhibited the certificates of several doctors that she could not survive two months longer.