Letter to Davies from former student, Henry Wayne, May 1, 1875.

Savannah, Georgia    May 1, 1875

Prof. Charles Davies

                                      Fishkill, New York

My Dear Professor,

Accept my thanks for the copy of your address of last year to the Association of Graduates of the Mil. Academy, which I received yesterday through Genl. Johnston.  I read it last evening with great pleasure and cordially sympathize with the views you have expressed, and regret that there is no probability of my being able to respond to them personally at West Point next June.  I look back to my Cadet and Officer life at West Point as the happiest [years?] of my life, and shall bear to my grave a sincere attachmnet to the place, and to the Academy and cherished memories of associations with them, in which, my dear Professor, you are most kindly remembered.  Of those who entered with me in 1834, [but who?] have remaind in the Army, M. Dowell and W.F. Barry, the rest of us have either rendered in their final accounts, or are still current in Civil life.  Though I may not be with you personally next June, yet believe me to be with you earnestly in spirit.

                            Sincerely yours,

Henry Constantine Wayne, USMA 1838, C#954, was at West Point as Assistant Instructor of Artillery and Cavalry, of the Sword Exercise, and of Infantry Tactics, December 12, 1841, to July 1, 1843 --- and Quartermaster, July 1, 1843, to June 11, 1846 (Davies was paymaster and treasurer at USMA from December 1841 to December 1845). From 1855 to 1858 he procured camels from Africa and Asia and tested their adaptability for Army transport. For this, in 1858, he received a First Class Gold Meal from the "Société Impériale Zoölogique d'Acclimatation," of Paris. Since he "Joined in the Rebellion of 1861-1866 against the United States" Cullum says no more about him. A subtext of this letter is that Wayne is uncomfortable with visiting USMA after the Civil War.

William Farquhar Barry, C#957, USMA 1838.

Irvin McDowell, C#963, USMA 1838. Check original to see if the "Mc" is there.

Transcription from George Rosenstein.
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