which he always insisted on giving that evening i saw him being dragged along by loi the gray jacket of no three and he was cursing like a demon in the course of time he got so low that he spent much more than half his time in jail he became a perfect vagabond and with his clothes ragged and dirty might be seen about or standing around the street comers near bars waiting for a chance drink or sitting asleep in of buildings his companions would be one or two like himself with red noses faces dry hair and filthy clothes sometimes i would see him hurrying along with one of these as if they had a piece of the most important business in the world an idea had struck their brains that by some means they could manage to secure a drink yet in some way he still held himself above these creatures and once or twice i heard of him being under arrest for what he deemed an impertinence from them once he came very near being drowned there was a flood in the river and a large crowd was watching it from the bridge suddenly a little girl s dog fell in it was pushed in by a the child cried out and there was a commotion when it subsided a man was seen swimming for life after the little white head go k the gray jacket of no ing own the stream it was no he had the fellow in the face and then had sprung in after the dog he caught it and got out himself though in too exhausted a state to stand up when he was praised for it he said a member of old joe s company who would not have done that could not have ridden behind old joe i had this story from eye witnesses and it was used shortly after with good effect for he was arrested for breaking into a man s house one night it looked at first like a serious case for some money had been taken out of a drawer but when the case was it turned out that the house was a bar room over which the man lived � he was the same man who had pitched the dog into the water � and that no after being given enough to make him a madman had been put out of the place had broken into the bar during the night to get more and was found fast asleep in a chair with an empty bottle beside him i think the jury became satisfied that if any money had been taken the to make out a case against no had taken it himself but there was a breaking and it had to be got around so his counsel appealed to the jury telling them what he knew of no together with the story the gray jacket of no of the child s dog and no reply there were one or two soldiers on the jury and they him on which he somehow managed to get enough to land him back in jail in twenty four hours in may there was a monument in it was a great occasion and not only all virginia but the whole south in it with great much enthusiasm and many tears it was an occasion for sacred memories the newspapers talked about it for a good while beforehand preparations were made for it as for the of a great and general ceremony in which the whole south was interested it was interested because it was not only the of a monument for the old commander the greatest and and as the south holds man of his time it was an occasion consecrated to the whole south it was the in precious memories and laying away in the tomb of the southern the of the southern people as such all were interested in it and all prepared for it it was known that all that remained of the southern armies would be there of the armies that fought at and bull run and fort � the gray jacket of no republic at seven pines s mill and cold harbor at and at and the wilderness and and the whole south union as it is now and ready to fight the nation s battles gathered to lee the old commander and to see and the of those and other bloody fields in which the soldiers of the south had held the world at bay and added to the glorious history of their race men came all the way from and to be present old one legged soldiers it from west virginia even no though in the caught the and shaped up and became sober he got a good suit of clothes somewhere � not new � and appeared quite respectable he even got something to do and in token of what he had been was put on one of the many having a hand in the entertainment arrangements i never saw a greater change in anyone it looked as if there was hope for him yet he stopped me on the street a day or two before the and told me he had a piece of good news the remnant of his old company was to be here he had got hold of the last one � there were the gray jacket of no nine of them left � and he had his old jacket that he had worn in the war and he was going to wear it on the march it s worn of course he said but my mother put some patches over the holes and except for the stain on it it s in good order i believe i am the only one of the boys that has his jacket still my mother kept this for me i have never got so hard up as to 