The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-10

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"4,n. sleeping. eating and psaysR. HsI
b kssIi fixed for literary hbeF. Il vosy
htth. know Of no one Who b bstteR ~ |
I'd "a in that way. His homo y comfoft- |
I'D !, having - III o. tasfs and ts6ns-
mlas 81 about il. Ia hin psrlor ~ ~
emil 6ss oil paintipks, one a. then being
. hort trowssred nsws-boy. THAT wa
t4xsn while | vas boy, ssys Lnk. An
other i portrait of his beautiful dasght-
s4 Nay. = golden haired girl betweea Eve
s}d six, Who hes taught hersslf to read
s3d arits. (0he writes printed lettsrs.
Hat where like . BE- best il il bis back
pE rior. which he cslls his ~den.' Here 10
where he use3 to write HE letters for the
tie Journal. whore nov he writes for the
Ies Noinss Register. aud 10 arranging,
sg,issoring, studying and writing on his
History Of the lows Troops"
% the walls are several sngravings.
Light above his great writing table 10 .
group of. four-Washington, 6hakspeare,
Webster and Cooper. His table il aIl
that writer could ask. Large, with
Digit or ten big drawers, an ink stand on
top that will hold gallon, and q broad
fsa fat-boas. On centre % the finest
bronze bust Of Shakespeare / ever SAW
Dn tho table and round about are cyclo-
p@dias, dictionaries. maps, aliases and
Ut Iowa newspapers. On the opposite
hide Of the room Is q library Of choice and
valuable books. Among them you will
ind pretty much all the books which have
appeared bearing on this rebellion. In
The big drawers JON will fiud (if you get
the privilege of looking in ~ / did,
about bushel of letters from our boys in
the armyand shout a cart load of their cor
respondence which has been printed 10
our papers. Mr. Ingersoll has nov been
engaged in arranging these materials, and
4 il. becoming familiar with them, with the
view of soon commencing the actual CON-
position Of lis history, and which part Of
the work be assures me, will constitute
but small portion of the labor. IL turn.
Ing over the facts in his mind, ia reading
from books which may have something &
say bearing on matters of which he vii
speak. in studying maps aud reports Of
battles. ct cetera he spends several hours I
day. / came in on him the other night
and found him porting over the third par
of the report on the Conduct Of the War
/ learned that be had read every word o
it, aud going over it again in the way o
review.
pumped him, and learned he was il
'ste~' about the battle Of Wilson,
Greek. sWhat with rebel authorities ant
Union authorities. newspapers, official re
ports, this Congressional report, aut
Henry O'Connor's pamphlet said he. q
have read 1t least = Thousand pages bear
ing. on that battle, and havn't made q,
my mind which side whipped. / raths
guess the absolute fact is. We whale,
them and they whaled us
/ asked him how he was ever going I,
get his history done, if he had so mucl
reading about every battle. WELL b,
said, as soon as Fremont and Frank Blai
get out Of the way, have but little trou
bic comparatively We thrashed 'em 8,
numerically after that for the most part
thai even the rebel writers admit re
verses.'
Linkensale is giving to this work grea
labor, much more thar. any one would b.
likely 10 suppose. But it is all labor o.
love, He 10 an enthusiast on Iowa gen
orally, and especially on Iowa troops. H,
declares that lows has handsomer girls
better soldiers, ADLER Generals, fiaer babies
and more corn TO tie acre. than any othel
state in the Usion. He has Just com
pleted biography Of the lamented Gen
8. A. Rice, for the Iowa ARnsls, which
venture to predict will be greatly liked
BY the people Of our State.
But enough for the present / hav,
said so much about your old friend be-
cause wanted to do something in this
my first essay, in your columns, TOWARD
repaying him for the many. very many
kind words he has there said for 90 man,
Iovans, myself among the number, whom
he esteemed good eggs.'-TCor. OF ths
Muscatipe journal.