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Title: A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Parker, David Bigelow, 1842-1910 Parker, Torrance, 1872-
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia Postal service -- United States Chautauqua County (N.Y.) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- Politics and government 1865-1900
Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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has beeninterested during these years. His mind was as clear tothe very last, apparently, as it was during the days of hisvigorous manhood, and no one ever left his bedside with-out feeling the better and wiser for the time spent in hiscompany. Although helpless, yet with perfect brain andspeech, he has written (dictated) a large volume in thepast two years on his experiences with General Grant,President Lincoln, Arthur, Johnson, Horace Greeley, theCushings, and hundreds of others. He is survived by awife and two sons. CONTENTS Page Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart . . vii Biographical Preface xix Chap. I The War Through Gettysburg ... i II From Gettysburg to Richmond ... 37 III War-Time Friends 65 IV Reconstruction of the Postal Service in Virginia 109 V United States Marshal for Virginia . 150 VI Postal Secret Service, Part I . . . . 195 VII Postal Secret Service, Part II . , . 243 VIII Some Recollections of Public Men . . 286 IX Country Life in Western New York . 335 Index 371
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X THE-NaW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, L=N«X AND TiL-irN r. ■■;»at;-N8. ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE David B. Parker. Portrait enlarged from a group taken in 1895 Frontispiece Order detailing Private Parker as Mail Agent of Hookers Division 6 Copy of Letter from Non-commissioned Officers at Hookers Headquarters, presenting him with Major Generals shoulder straps 10 Copy of Major General Hookers thanks for shoulder straps 10 Order commanding all officers to aid and assist Private Parker, Mail Agent of Sickles Division .... 12Pass for Private Parker, Mail Agent of Centre Grand Division 16 Order from Major General Meade for delivery of mail to David Parker, Fifth Corps Mail Agent 20 Commission as Second Lieutenant, signed by Governor Seymour 22 Lieutenant David B. Parker 24 Order installing the Money Order Service in the Army . 28 Army Mail, Army of the Potomac 37 Letter of recommendation from General Hooker . . 40Pass for Lieutenant Parker, Mail Agent, superintending mail for the Army of the

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