The General paused, and extending his hand to the two friends of his early years, expressed his pleasure at meeting them, and introduced them to the gentlemen present. It was a singular but agreeable meeting between the old teacher and the now distinguished scholar.

"Call and see me at the hotel, Mr. Roberts, when I am more at leisure," said the General. "When I am a little stronger from the effects of my wound, I will return the call."

At the appointed time, the teacher and scholar met again. As Mr. Roberts entered the private room of the General, at the La Pierre, he was lying on his couch, suffering from the fatigue to which the review of the previous day had subjected his wounded limb. But he rose at once to pay the respect due from a good scholar to a good teacher.

"Do not rise, General Hancock," said Mr. Roberts; "I feel, sir, that you are laying me under too much obligation by doing so."

"No, Mr. Roberts," the General replied, "I shall always feel, sir, that I am under obligations to you." "It is sufficient honor for me, General, to have had you for a scholar."

"No, sir. I feel that my teachers have all honored me. Beside, sir, you are much the older man of the

two; and my parents always taught me to reverence grey hairs."

"I did not have grey hairs when you first knew me, General."

"True, sir. Our mutual obligations were formed when we were both younger than now. But I cannot omit to use my anatomy now, even if it is impaired. Let me be ever so old, I can never forget my school-teachers. I feel that my experience in life has proved this to be true: as is the teacher, so is the school-boy; as is the school-boy, so is the man."

Other parties calling in, this interesting interview was closed. But not long after the General took his son Russell with him, and called on his old teacher.

"This gentleman, my son," said the General, "is one of the teachers of your father, when, like you, he was a boy. Remember always to respect the teacher of your youth; and, should you live to become a man, you will never regret it."

It is this spirit of the man that stamps the name of HANCOCK with peculiar honor. He was always the same among his soldiers. An officer of the staff of another distinguished General, in alluding to this attribute of Hancock's character, says of him:

"The attachment that he manifests for his brave soldiers is remarkable. While he despises a coward,

if the humblest man in the ranks should be the first to enter Richmond, as a conqueror, General HANCOCK would be among the first to do him honor."

Passing from Philadelphia to New York, he was received in the latter city with much distinction. The Governor's Room, in the City Hall, was placed at his disposal, for the reception of his friends, and every measure adopted that could be to aid him in procuring recruits for his Corps. A large number of his troops were from the Empire State. They were so much attached to his person, and their acquaintances at home so participated in the feeling of attachment, that when he presented himself to the people he was claimed by them as a New Yorker. This impression became so common, for a time, that one of the publishers of that city announced a volume on his life, as a New York General.

Passing to Albany, the capital of the State of New York, the Legislature paid him an official tribute of respect for his distinguished services to the country.

The same honors were bestowed upon him in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, where the General Court invited him to their Representative Chamber, and where the merchants and other citizens waited upon him at the City Exchange. His agreeable man

ners, added to his well-known courage and skill in battle, created the most favorable impressions wherever he went on his tour of duty through New England. Patriotic applause greeted him at every point, and a considerable number of fighting recruits flocked to his standard.

CHAPTER XXV

IN THE CAMPAIGN WITH GRANT.

"Great actions are the legitimate result of great designs." Rouchefoucauld.

N the 18th of March, 1864, the General, while

ON

still actively engaged in recruiting his Corps, writes to his father from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:

"I have just received an order from the Secretary of War, to report without delay to him for instructions, prior to rejoining my command in the field. I have but time to notify you of the fact."

Such was the modest announcement of his entrance on that great campaign with Lieutenant General GRANT, in which he has borne his part with so much propriety.

His position at the head of the Second Army Corps was one in which he felt at home. He knew the men, and they knew him. A large proportion of them were citizens of his native Pennsylvania, and had enlisted in the service of the United States under him as their commander. His presence among them