much surprised and affected by it, and as particularly astonished that if should have come from Gen. Grant. .itIlcv- J. IX Barrett* of Kay Claire, from whioii county the famed eagle of the 8th regiment, named aa above, came, i? about- to publish hie history, and he requests any soldier, knowing any interesting incidents about him to comnmni-cato, •y-Av.; G so. JI. Otis, of the Old Second Wisconsin, fed now editor and proprietori of die -Mineral Point Tribune, has been____