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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43215, 15 August 1907, Page 1

officefllH not j ury arose Neal Dow’s ordered $o tbe Lower sippi, and in his capacity of Brigadier-General he conducted an attack on Fort Hudson. TheS attack failed, 'and Neal Dow | bOing wounded, was taken to a private mausiou for surgical fi treatmeiit. His ■ retreat was | disclosed to the Confederates, add he was arrested and im : I prisoned in the notorious Libbey Prison for some mouths. Being J exchanged, he was drafted ho m fill and before he recovered from J slis % ' wounds the great war was ■ J brought to au end by G moral I Lee’s surrender to General I Grant/ |1 ; NEAL Dpw’s'SECOXl> VISIT. I to the British Isles extouJLi I from May 30th, 1866. whan hi I landed at Liverpool, to Novem I ber 23rd, L 867, when he sail 1 J for America. In the com;) o-V;| of those eighteen months h. : i| renewed piany old acquaintances! andfoftr.ed many more ne w one ./I Bcbtlaildand i Ireland, and even I Guernsey,.;gave him a welcome/ During a visit In* Bnrslem. April 19th, 1.8.67, h■ oresen e<*l with' a dinner ,■ i) " /rsccr ■ ' ice and a r break -M f•*, the . wlml- I .aghg f /• '0 pieces. , II is J . -rr ; everywhere ■ a.M erdhusiastic, but a, spec al I interest attacked to the one held ■ in the r great historic Guild Ha I n London, May 20 th, 1867,* granted by the Common Cour-* cil of the City of Loudon on the* ground of his distinguished* reputation: The chair was oc-* cupied by Alderman Hale, J.P J and a brilliant'audience gave to* the Bepulican;exponent of Pig* ihabi tion V- - princely reception® An immense meeting at "Live™ pool oil the 23r/? of November* was .-a fitting public fare wellJ the, guest of the Alliance.the visits of 1857 and 1 ,'^GO- jfl had ndt’been without satis facto fi* to Neal Dow may be iuierredH from the fact that a THIRD AND LONGER was arranged and carried ouffl extending to over two yeaifH from April 18th, 1873, durinfl which he showed little abatoS ineiit of the physical and mcntafH vigour so conspicuous in his firntß visit in 1857. A 1 fare well break J ! ast s fn Manchester, with th|B rresentation'of a an address o’B day 18th, 1375, brought to ■ lose a long-stiCce'Ssiou of uitous.services, which no othei» nan coulddiave rendered. ■ (To be continued.). I