The Portland daily press., 1882-05-16
An Anecdote Of Cavendish.
General Averil1's Recollections Of the
Murdered Lord While with the Army
OF the Potomac.

General AverilPS Recollectton5 or the
Murdered Lord While with the Army
OF the Potomac.
'Gath," writing from New York to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, relates an interview with
General Averill, in which the latter told him
the following singular story about the late
Lord Cavendish
"You may not be AWARE said he, "that
Cavendish was in the Army of the Potomac in
1862, and entertained him for while. He
came to this country with lis brother, Lord
Harrington, now the Marquis of Harrington,
and with Sir John Rose. I met them in the
following way: When McClellan's army evac-
uated the peninsula L covered the embarkation
with my cavalry, and was the last officer to get
on the steamer. Having been i'll lost my
senses when I got on the steamer, and knew
nothing more till I found myself in the house
of General Wadsworth, at Washington. As
soon as I was able to get out, made ready to
find the army again, which was then at Antie-
tam battlefield. But before l started went
into General ingalls, Office, on Pennsylvania
avenue, he being the chief quartermaster OF
Mcclellan, and he and Nesmith OF Oregon, and
Colonel Sawtelle and myself sat down to play
a game of poker. 1t was pretty long game,
and, consecutively, ingalls, and Nesmith were
frozen out, and the game was left to Sawtelle
and me, and won all the money. Sawtelle
bu6u SAID. now AfcIL, nave uO uOIo LuOu-
ey, but ingalls, has plenty of wine and good
stuff here, and will stake you basket OF
champagne on another round won again,
and the champagne was raine. Then they put
up some Chateau Margeaux, and won that.
Said L: Gentlemen, if you think am going
to leave this stuff here, you are mistaken. |
am going to carry it up to the army with me-"
So when I started the next day I had my wine
loaded up, and some of my staff officers were
with me, and it took me all day to go to Har-
per's Ferry. On the way certain Englishmen,
seeing me with generals insignia, introduced
themselves as Lords Cavendish and Harting
ton, and with them was Rose. 1 was pretty Ill
from having played that poker the night be-
fore. being barely convalescent, but lying down
as I was most of the time, heard them talk,
and divided lunch with them. Cayendish was
young fellow, pretty well made, OF frank,
bluff STYLE His elder brother, Harrington,
was something over 30 years old. When we
got out at Berlin, in Maryland, to find the ar
my, these young fellows still went along with
us, and we came to small house at the road
side, standing rather on HILL which had but
one bed in it, and was inhabited By poor
woman. We concluded to stop there for the
night, and these young lords lay down on the
floor with my staff, making no complaint. and
insisted on my taking the bed. | then got at
my supplies, and some of the boys had hunted
ice in the neighborhood. They probably
thought an American officer lived just as / did
that day, on the results OF my poker game. We
had champagne and ice, and then Margeaux
and pork and beans. The next day, while We
were at the same house, General Mcclellan
rode past and called out to me: How are you,
Avcrill? Glad to see you back General
Mcclellan, thank you,' said I. Hearing his
name, these two fellows rushed down to the
fence to get glimpse of the general they had
read SO much Of, but did not introduce them
The staff officers got to like them pretty we'll.
and used to say to this Cavendish who was
killed Saturday, .Cayendish, give me some of
your tobacco They stayed around the camp
some time, and suddenly Harrington disap-
peared and turned up in Lees army. The 9th
ers did not 60. never inquired as to whether
pass the lines, but have the idea that he inst
walked out of the picket-line and went over.
Sir John Rose, when saw him afterward in
Canada, rather apologized for HartingtoD's
disappearance, which was the first time knew
that he had gone to Lee"