Excerpt from Tenting on the Plains: Or General Custer in Kansas and Texas The soldiers, accustomed to suppression through strict mili tary discipline, now vehemently expressed their feelings; and though it gladdened the General's heart, it was still the hardest sort of work to endure it all without Show Of emo tion. As he rode up to where I was waiting, he could not, dared not, trust himself to speak to me. TO those intrepid men he was indebted for his success. Their unfailing trust in his judgment, their willingness to follow where he led ah He knew well that one looks upon such men but once in a lifetime. Some Of the soldiers called out for the General's wife. The staff urged me to ride forward to the troops, as it was but a little thing thus to respond to their good-by. I tried to do so, but after a few steps, I begged those beside whom I rode to take me back to where we had been standing. Iwas too overcome, from having seen the suffering on my husband's face, to endure any more sorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.