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A REVIEW OF ALDIE. 123
heart went out, quenched by the tears of pity, and I felt we can
not afford to be otherwise than generous towards men who have
suffered so much. On Tuesday after the surrender I rode with
Lt. Col. True to the famous apple tree, and while I held his
horse he chopped out a chip for himself and one for me which
we brought away in our saddlebags.
I have a small piece of mine left after many divisions among
friends. It still retains the marks of the army axe which will re-
mind one of that passage in Eccl. " If the iron be blunt and he
do not whet the edge then must he put to more strength."
What though Gen. Lee did not actually surrender under that
tree to Gen. Grant? yet the fall of that tree was to the minds of
hundreds of soldiers' Union and Confederate, who carried away
pieces of it t\'pical of the fall of the most gigantic and unright-
eous rebellion of modern times.
A Review of Aldie.
BY CAIT. GEORGE N. BLISS, KIRST RHODE ISLAM) CAVALRY.
The history of the First Maine Cavalry is, in my opinion, th