The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, volume Ii., Part 6
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He treated us most hospitably, andnext morning, on departing, we offered compensation by tendering asum--about what our bill would have been at a good hotel--to be usedfor the "benefit of the wounded or the Church. " Under thisstipulation the notary accepted, and we followed that plan of payingfor food and lodging afterward, whenever quartered in private houses. The next day I set out in advance of the headquarters, and reachedBar-le-Duc about noon, passing on the way the Bavarian contingent of...the Crown Prince's army. These Bavarians were trim-looking soldiers, dressed in neat uniforms of light blue; they looked healthy andstrong, but seemed of shorter stature than the North Germans I hadseen in the armies of Prince Frederick Charles and General vonSteinmetz. When, later in the day the King arrived, a guard for himwas detailed from this Bavarian contingent; a stroke of policy nodoubt, for the South Germans were so prejudiced against theirbrothers of the North that no opportunity to smooth them down waspermitted to go unimproved.
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