e President, with some others, including
myself, started from Washington to visit the Army, reaching Harper's
Ferry at noon of that day.

"In a short while General McClellan came from his headquarters near the
battleground, joined the President, and with him reviewed the troops
at Bolivar Heights that afternoon, and at night returned to his
headquarters, leaving the President at Harper's Ferry.

"On the morning of the second, the President, with General Sumner,
reviewed the troops respectively at Loudon Heights and Maryland Heights,
and at about noon started to General McClellan's headquarters, reaching
there only in time to see very little before night.

"On the morning of the third all started on a review of the Third Corps
and the cavalry, in the vicinity of the Antietam battle-ground. After
getting through with General Burnside's corps, at the suggestion of
General McClellan, he and the President left their horses to be led, and
went into an ambulance to go to General Fitz John Porter's corps, which
was two or three miles distant.

"I am not sure whether the President and General McClellan were in the
same ambulance, or in different ones; but myself and some others were
in the same with the President. On the way, and on no part of the
battleground, and on what suggestions I do not remember, the President
asked me to sing the little sad song that follows ("Twenty Years Ago,
Tom"), which he had often heard me sing, and had always seemed to like
very much.

"After it was over, some one of the party (I do not think it was the
President) asked me to sing something else; and I sang two or three
little comic things, of which 'Picayune Butler' was one. Porter's corps
was reached and reviewed; then the battle-ground was passed over, and
the most noted parts examined; then, in succession, the cavalry and
Franklin's corps were reviewed, and the President and party returned
to General McClellan's headquarters at the end of a very hard, hot and
dusty day's work.

"Next day (the 4th), the President and General McClellan visited such
of the wounded as still remained in the vicinity, including the
now lamented General Richardson; then proceeded to and examined the
South-Mountain battle-ground, at which point they parted, General
McClellan returning to his camp, and the President returning to
Washington, seeing, on the way, General Hartsoff, who lay wounded at
Frederick Town.

"This is the whole story of the singing and its