The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, And the Escape ..
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Some men can fight battles over a telegraph-wire, but you know I have no talent in that direction." With his friendly grasp of the hand, and his kindly smile, he started for home. It proved to him Home indeed. A week later the country was startled by intel- ligence of his sudden death. He, who for forty-eight 328 His Conduct in Kansas. [isea years had brayed the hardships of campaigning and the perils of battle, nntil he seemed to have a charmed life, was abruptly cut down by disease under his ...own roof, surrounded by those he loyed. " The breast that trampling Death could spare, His noiseless shafts assail.'" For almost half a century, Sumner had belonged to the Army of the United States ; but he steadfastly refused to be put on the retired list. Entering the ser- vice from civil life, he was free from professional tradi- tions and narrowness. Senator "Wade once asked him, "How long were you at the Military Academy ?" He replied, " I was never there in my life." The bluff Ohioan sprang up and shook him fervidly by the hand, exclaiming, ' ' Thank God for one general of the regular Army, who was never at West Point !' ' During the early Kansas troubles, Sumner, then a colonel, was stationed in the Territory with his regiment of dragoons'.
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