<h3>MARRYING A MAN WITHOUT HIS CONSENT.</h3>
<p>Major Hoxsey, Excelsior (N. Y.) Brigade, wounded in the Fighting Joe
Hooker division, could not accept a commission in the army, but wished
to be put upon the staff of the volunteers, as he could not walk. He
was upheld in his desire by Adjutant-general Hamlin, who accompanied
him to the President. They were both asked to sit while the authority
consulted the Congressional laws. Staff appointments could not be
heard by the President unless the general commanding the desired
rank was approving.</p>
<p>"I have no more power to appoint you without that request," said the
President, "than I would have to marry a woman to any man she might
desire for a husband without his consent!"--(By General Charles
Hamlin.)
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