winter of 1864. On the Monday morning of j the fall of Richmond I went to Lynchburg, ; and remained there some two weeks, when 1 ' came hack to Manchester, where I was boarding. Arrived there on a Monday, and called on Mrs. Onld the next day. She asted me what I was .going to do, and I told her I didn't know until'l heard from my home, in Alexandria. She then proposed to