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Title: A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Parker, David B. (David Bigelow), 1842-1910 Parker, Torrance, b. 1872, ed
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia Postal service -- United States Chautauqua County (N.Y.) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- Politics and government 1865-1900
Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Parker; with no explana-tion whether I had resigned or had been removed. Ina little time I received a telegram from Ramsdell,saying : From the morning newspapers I see I am ap-pointed United States Marshal in your place. I willnot accept the office at your expense, and will join withyour friends in going to Washington at once to protestagainst your removal. Answer. I answered that I had resigned in his favor, and hecame to Richmond, was duly commissioned, assumedthe office and occupied it until his death, seven or eight 194 A CHAUTAUQUA BOY years later. My reason for thinking that he wouldtake the office was that I had once traveled severalhours with him on the cars, and he had spoken of Fed-eral positions, several of which had been offered to him,and had said smilingly, You have the only office thatwould be attractive to me. I could still be a farmerand a newspaper editor and hold it, and had laughedabout it. It was very gratifying to know that I hadresigned in favor of a true man.
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Postmaster General Key and Chief Officers of the Departmentl\Ir. Theodore N. Vail is in lower right-hand corner. Mr. Parker is in lower left-hand corner CHAPTER VI POSTAL SECRET SERVICE Part I AFTER attending to some private business for awhile I was asked to re-enter the Post-Office De-partment and did so. Postmaster General Jewell,whom I did not know, telegraphed me to come toWashington, and when I presented myself said: There is a delicate matter of business in the South-west which I laid before the President and asked himto indicate what should be done, and he told me thatif we had an Inspector in whom we reposed perfectconfidence he would like to have him investigate thecharges fully and without favor at once. And thePresident added that there used to be a man in ourDepartment whom he thought we could probably get,if only temporarily, whom he would like to have takethis matter in hand, and he gave me your name. What was called the conspiracy against GeneralGrant on the part of Se

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