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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
Vol. I.

CHAPTER III
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Of course I was all ready, and others of our set were going home by the same conveyance, viz., Rucker, Ord, A.J.

Smith--some under orders, and the others on leave.

Wanting to see my old friends in Monterey, I arranged for my passage in the steamer of January 1, 1850, paying six hundred dollars for passage to New York, and went down to Monterey by land, Rucker accompanying me.

The weather was unusually rainy, and all the plain about Santa Clara was under water; but we reached Monterey in time.

I again was welcomed by my friends, Dona Augustias, Manuelita, and the family, and it was resolved that I should take two of the boys home with me and put them at Georgetown College for education, viz., Antonio and Porfirio, thirteen and eleven years old.


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