Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-12-30
I" "LENISENSAA..-

totoiAac, IN his aShlngton CORES
dence to the Muscatne JoHrndl, "does up"
"LinkSnSao' in the following handsome and
interesting manner:
About the hardest worker know of here
is your old correspondents l.. d, Ingerson,
known TO The reading public by the nome dc
pl4mc Of L;nkcnsale." He works seven
hours day ut the Treasury and about ten
at home, giving the other seven, as he laugh.
ingly says himself, to fun, sleeping, eating,
aud prayeF." lie 10 well fixed for literary
labor. In very truth, | know of no one who
is better situated in that way His home Ia
comfortable, having an air of taste and re-
snemeRt all about it. In his parlor are sov.
erai Tine oil paintings, one of them being a
short trowscrca news boy. THAT was tu,
kca while was bey," says Link, Another
is portrait Of his beautiful little daughter,
May, golden haired GIRL between fiyp and
siE, Who has taught herself 10 read aud write.
tShe writes printed letteTs.) Rot where |
like to bc the best is in his back parlnr,
which he calls his "dcn." Here is where ho
used to write his letters for the .F8prHdG,
where now lac writes for the lS,s MoineS
hcgSfCy, and is arranging, Scissorng. study
ing and writing on his " History Of the Iowa
Troops"
On the walls nre several cncravincs -
Right above his great writiugtab is group
Of four Washington, Shakespeare, Webster
and Cooper. His table is aIi that writer
could ask. Large, with eight or ten big
drawers, an ink stand on top that viii, hold
a gallon, and as broad hottctnad as Hat.
boat. On the center is the finest bronze
..F lal I ~ Ii I 1
and round about are cyclopHdins, dictiona
iTcs, maps, aliases and lots Of Iowa newspa.
pers. On the opposite side 0f the ronm is
library of choice and valuable books
Among them you will find pretty much all
the books which have appeared bearing on
ibis rebellion. In the hig drawers YOU will
find Of you get the privilege of looking in,
as did about buShcl Of letters from our
boys in the army, and ahont cart load Of
their correspondence which has been printed
ia our papers. Mr.. IngerSul is now engaged
IN arranging these materials, and IN hrcom-
ing familiar Nith them, with virw Of soon
commencing the actual composition or hi
history, md which part Of the work, he as.
suleS me. v Ill constitute but small portion
Of the labor. In turning over the facts in
his mind, in reading from locks which may
have something TO say bearing on matters of
which he VIII speak, in studying maps and
reports OF battles, etc, he spends several
hours day. came in on him the ether
n'Bht, and found him poring over the third
part OF the Report on the Conduct Of The
War. | learned that he had renl every word
OF It, and was going over il again in the way
review. pumped him, aud learned hu was
/" " stew" about the battle Of Wilson's
Creek. What with rebel authorities and
Union authorities, newspapers, official re
ports, this Congressional report, and Henry
pCounor's pamphlet" snd he. 81 have
read at least a thousand pages bearing on
that battle, and haven't made up my mind
which whipped. rather guess the absolute
Iact is, We whaicd them and they whaled
It's
| asked him how he was ever going to get
his history done If lc had So much rsatling
ahout every battle. Well" ho snid " as
soon as Fremont and Frank Blair get out Of
the way have bat liltle trouble coIupsra
lively. We lhrashftl en- 50 numerically
after that for the most part, that even tisg
rebel writer's admit 'reverses'n
LinHcnsa!e is giving 10 this work cres.
labor, much mCre than any one wonll he.
likely to suppose But II II sli labor IL 1--we
t'c is nh enthusiast on Iowa generally, and
especially on Iowa troops. lie declares that
Iowa has han6soinCr girls, better soldiers,
ahICr Generals, finer babies, aud more corn
to the acre, than any other State in the
Unon. He has i4st cor pcted biography
Of the IGmcutcd General =. 4. Rice, for the
lnUa iEaaia, which venture to predict will
be greatly liked by the people oC our State.