extremities masked in shadow, and the tall, yellow-robed

Not long afterward came the culmination of a little difference that

had arisen between General Curtis and me, brought about, I have since

sometimes thought, by an assistant quartermaster from Iowa, whom I

had on duty with me at Springfield. He coveted my place, and finally

succeeded in getting it. He had been an unsuccessful banker in Iowa,

and early in the war obtained an appointment as assistant

quartermaster of volunteers with the rank of captain. As chief

quartermaster of the army in Missouri, there would be opportunities