I answered that I was.

He said he would be glad if I would remain over-night and call at the Executive office the next morning.
I complied with his request, and was asked to go into the Adjutant-General's office and render such assistance as I could, the governor saying that my army experience would be of great service there.
I accepted the proposition.
My old army experience I found indeed of very great service.

I was no clerk, nor had I any capacity to become one.

The only place I ever found in my life to put a paper so as to find it again was either a side coat-pocket or the hands of a clerk or secretary more careful than myself.

But I had been quartermaster, commissary and adjutant in the field.