Camp near Edgefield, Tennessee.  June 17, 1865.  Brig. Gen. Whipple.  A. A. Gen. Dept. of the Cumberland.

Sir:  I have the honor very respectfully to apply for Leave of Absence for twenty days for the purpose of visiting my home near Knoxville, East Tennessee.  I have never received leave of absence during the near three years service and my private affairs require my immediate attention if possible.

Hoping this may meet with your favorable consideration, I have the honor to be,

Very Respectfully,
Your obediant servant,
George W. Webb
First Lieut. Company "1", 2 Cavalry East Tennessee Volunteers.

Needless to say that Lt. George W. Webb went home for the 20 days, took the baby the name and the shoes for all and many other gifts for he was a most generous man.  He named the little girl, Mary Lytle, for Lt. Lytle.  She grew to womanhood and she too had the wonderful coloring of her beautiful mother with the red hair and also the far off wistful look that ever wanted to follow the road to the west.  Mary Lytle did so and was a pioneer of the Middle West and today one of her sons is one of the most successful citizens of the great Northwest, another lives in St. Louis and is the father of a little girl with grace and charm and gorgeous red hair who is taking first prize in all her school work and in various contests of St. Louis.  Proving to the world that blood will tell and that the people of the Great Smokies are rightly known as the sturdiest race on the face of the earth, proud of their heritage and ready to prove it to the world.

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