Captain Lee, of the Engineers, a hero to his child-The family pets- Home from the Mexican War-Three years in Baltimore-Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy-Lieutenant-Colonel of Second Cavalry- Supresses "John Brown Raid" at Harper's Ferry-Commands the Department of TaxesThe first vivid recollection I have of my father is his arrival at Arlington, after his return from the Mexican War. I can remember some events of which he seemed a part, when we lived at Fort Hamilton, New York, about 1846, but they are more like dreams, very indistinct and disconnected-naturally so, for I was at that time about three years old. But the day of his return to Arlington, after an absence of more than two years, I have always remembered. I had a frock or blouse of some light wash material, probably cotton, a blue ground dotted over with white diamond figures.