Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
Huntsville, Ala., Wed., Feb. 18, 1865.—I find myself very busy again. Colonel Doolittle left for Nashville this morning, and I have to command the post during his absence, which will be several days. General Granger expects to go North in a few days on leave of absence.
We live quite in the suburbs of the town, some little distance from where the rest of the officers are quartered. I see Major-General Stanley sometimes, and my relations with him are very pleasant. He remembered me as having served in his command at Corinth.
An old lady here, a Mrs. Rogers, one of the F. F. V.’s, has just returned from Washington, where she went to try and get her grandson, who is a rebel prisoner, paroled. I gave her a letter of introduction to Senator Doolittle, who has treated her with great kindness and said many nice things to her about me. She thinks I have more influence than any of the Generals in the department, and I hear of her talking about it everywhere. It quite sets me up.
