October 25 Monday – Sam was in Washington, where he didn’t sleep well this night [Oct. 26 to Livy].

Charles J. Langdon wrote proposing to escort his mother to New York and the Gilsey House on Thursday, Nov. 4, and “deliver her to you Friday wherever you may be stopping.” Langdon would continue on with some friends “down the bay to meet Genl. Magee.” Note: General George J. Magee (1840-1897), owner of coal company active in railroad development.

An unidentified person sent Sam a six-page folder of a General Court-Martial in David’s Island, N.Y. Harbor, president Lt. Col. Alfred L. Hough tried Francis Wild on June 26, 1886. Wild did “Wilfully beat the bass-drum out of time at morning practice, compelling the band to stop playing” and “did, without just cause or provocation, call Sergeant Otto Lipprandt, Depot Detachment, General Service Recruits, a liar, a loafer, a perjurer, and a mean fellow. This at David’s Island on or about the 28th day of May, 1886.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Queer charges against soldier” [MTP].