was a most pleasant one, and we found, on arriving at the latter city, that
Captain A. M. Stafford, of the Galveston Artillery,
Captain W. K. Hall, of the
Washington Guard,
Colonel W. L. Moody for the citizens, and their efficient committees had left nothing undone to make our visit there both pleasant and successful.
They met us at the depot, escorted us to elegant quarters at the
Tremont Hotel, and made every provision for our comfort and pleasure.
An elegant lunch at
Mr. Duckworth's, a reception at the hotel, and a drive around the beautiful city and along the magnificent
Gulf beach, filled up the afternoon most pleasantly and enabled us to appreciate why the people of
Galveston are so enthusiastic about their city, and so hopeful of its future progress.
At 8 o'clock that night (March 1st) an escort from the two companies, and the committees, accompanied
General Lee to the
Artillery Hall, where he was again greeted with a large and enthusiastic audience, being gracefully introduced by
Captain Stafford, who received his lecture with warm appreciation, and generous applause.
The hall was very tastefully decorated.
After the lecture there followed an elegant banquet, at which, besides an abundance for the inner man, there was a pleasant ‘feast of reason and flow of soul’
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We bore away with us the next morning the most delightful recollections of
Galveston, as we returned to meet an engagement for that night in
