PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WAR
BY A VIRGINIAN
published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Editor's Drawer, June 1866:

ORTE CRAYON—now a General, a real General, a General in the Union Army—once on a time wrote a series of articles in this Magazine. Who that read them has forgotten them? You remember the dark-complected coachman, who rejoiced in the name of “Mice.” Those articles were as readable as the Drawer! So entertaining were they that there was hardly any need of a Drawer, or funny department, when Porte Crayon was along. Well, he is back again, and with this the first Number of a new volume he begins to give his “Personal Recollections of the War.” The Drawer gives him a welcome, and so will all the Drawers readers. (Porte Crayon was a pen name of David H. Strother)

• first Paper - June 1866