regiments, which were also afterwards called out
for training. Charley told me that he had a very
enjoyable time when training with his regiment,
as he went to no end of dinners, dances, and garden-
parties, and I, too, had very much the same ex-
perience with the Armaghs. While we were in
the militia, Charley and I attended all the levees,
and drawing-rooms, and other entertainments, at
Dublin Castle. The Lord Lieutenant, Lord Car-
lisle, being a friend of our mother's, used to talk
to us a good deal, especially about our cricket
matches.

It was during the great Civil War in the United
States that my brother first took an interest in
politics. The horrors of the conflict were so often
discussed by our grandmother and our mother,
themselves Americans, that it would have been
strange indeed if we had not been influenced by
the tales of death and devastation which came
across the water. Charley eagerly read every
item of information contained in the newspaper,
and discussed the details freely with us. My
mother's sympathies were with the North, while
I advocated the cause of the South, and we had
many a heated, though friendly, discussion in our
family circle. Charley supported his mother,
and we reproduced the war between us, with con-
siderable damage to the furniture, any odd articles

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