dle's Point, on the Missouri shore-in the self and two others. At first he scarcely very eyes and teeth of the rebels. Until knew what to do, for had the enemy supthey opened fire, the rebels did not appear posed there were no greater force in town to be aware, even, of their new position. they would have retaken it, and perhaps Their gunboats soon fired up, however, to massacred every man. In this strait he attack them, as the new position would cut resorted to a ruse, which met with good them off from an important military depot, success. Getting the bearer of the flag unless the Federals were driven away. Their attack by five heavy gunboats was terrific. So thick and fast they sent their shot and shell that the Union artillery were at times for fifteen or twenty minutes unable to show a head above the parapet to load or fire. The Federal guns, however, were well manned, and though only two against twenty, the enemy finally hauled off. Only one man-an artillery man-was killed on our side. The men in the pits took the thing very coolly. In the intervals between the discharges, more or less of them would rise up to look around; but when the smoke on one of the boats told them that shot or shell was coming, the cry was "Down!" and every head disappeared. Notwithstanding the hissing, screaming and whistling of the shot, round and conical, and the bursting of shells around and over them, they indulged in jests, and many of them were found deeply engrossed in games of cards. The remnants of shells fell into several of the pits. One pit was knocked in by a thirtytwo pound shot, and buried the men in it a foot deep in sand. They kicked out, and laughingly dug their pit anew. Capital Ruse to Save Springfield. Previous to the attack on Springfield by Major Zagonyi, Major White of the Prairie Scouts was captured by the enemy, but was recaptured on the same night by a detachment of Home Guards, and proceeded to Springfield, then held by only eleven men. Of these he at once assumed command. Major Zagonyi. into the hospital, under the pretense that it would be unsafe were any of his men to see him, he told him that General Sigel was in command of the town, and it would be necessary to send the request to him. He then took one of his men outside, gave him proper instructions, and then re-entered and engaged the confederate in conversation. In an hour or so, the man returned, and expressing General Sigel's regrets that, being mounted, he could not return a written answer to the request, gave the desired permission to in the belief that an immense National bury the dead. The flag soon left, firm force were encamped on the south and east of the town. Albert Munson, of Marblehead, was a little hero, fifteen years of age, who could While holding the town with this scant merrily play Yankee Doodle and the Star force, the rebels sent in a flag of truce, Spangled Banner, and, struck by his bold asking permission to bury their dead. and inspiring manner, Colonel Kurtz apNine of his men were on picket duty-pointed him as a drummer in one of the his whole garrison force consisted of him- companies of the Massachusetts Twenty third. His father was attached to the | Island Volunteers, accompanied her hussame regiment. band to the war, and he was severely They sailed in the Burnside expedition; wounded at Newbern. Mrs. Brownell and at the battle of Roanoke Island, after was with the Third Rhode Island regia weary march through slime and water, ment at the battle of Bull Run, having they came in sight of the enemy's battery. been adopted as the 'child of the regi"Who will go and take it?" asked the ment' by General Burnside, then Colonel. General commanding. "The Massachu-She was on the field at the battle of Roasetts Twenty-third," was the quick reply. noke Island, in spite of the many efforts "Forward, then, double-quick!" and in to keep her out of the way of danger. At the teeth of a galling fire they rushed to their death as it had been to their bridal. The father fell wounded by his side, but the son heeded him not; his whole soul had lost itself in the work before him. "Look at that child!" said one officer to another; 66 no wonder we conquer when boys fight so." "Didn't I say they should run to the old tunes?" and seizing a disabled revolver for a drum-stick, he struck up, in a wondrously defiant way, our impudent old strain of Yankee Doodle. A flying rebel heard it, and looking back, took sure aim at Albert. A man near the boy saw the deadly aim, but tried to pull Albert down, but he stood his ground, and the ball did not fail to do its fatal work. His knightly Colonel's arms held the brave the battle of Newbern she exhibited that boy, and all bent eagerly to hear his last presence of mind and bravery which words;"Which beat-quick, tell me?" proved her a woman of the most heroic Tears ran down the blackened faces, and character. She was on the field during one, in a voice busky with sobs, said, "We, the whole of the engagement, attending to Albert, the field is ours." The ears death the wounded, and giving encouragement had already deadened caught no sound, by her fortitude and presence to the soland his slight hand fluttered impatiently diers. When the standard-bearer of the as again he gasped, "What? tell quick!" Sixth regiment fell, she seized the banner, "We beat 'em intirely, me boy," said a and, carrying it across the field, received a big Irish sergeant, who was crying like a flesh-wound. She brought with her to the child. Albert heard then, and his voice North a Secessia rifle, which she found was as strong as ever as he answered, after the battle-a prize of no little value. "Why don't you go after 'em? Don't the Army. mind me, I'll catch up-I'm a little cold, Appointment of Mrs. Reynolds as Major in but running will warm me." He never spoke again. Governor Yates, of Illinois, paid a rather unusual but well-merited compliment Mrs. Brownell, the Heroine of Newbern. to Mrs. Reynolds, wife of Lieutenant ReyMrs. Brownell, wife of Orderly-Ser-nolds, of Company A, Seventeenth Illinois geant R. S. Brownell, of the Fifth Rhode regiment, and a resident of that city. Mrs. Reynolds accompanied her husband | blockade in safety, and knowing that the through the greater part of the campaign transports to convey General Pope's forces through which the Seventeenth passed, across the Mississippi had been got through sharing with him the dangers and priva- the slough, and that very soon a strong tions of a soldier's life. She was present force would be in their rear, they abanat the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and doned their camp and all its contents on like a ministering angel attended to the Monday afternoon, and left for Tiptonwants of as many of the wounded and ville, only five miles distant by land, but dying soldiers as she could, thus winning by the river fifteen miles below New Mathe gratitude and esteem of the brave fel-drid, hoping thence to escape by their lows by whom she was surrounded. Gov- transports. But on reaching the little ernor Yates, hearing of her heroic and town, what was their surprise to find the praiseworthy conduct, presented her with gunboats Carondelet and Pittsburg moored a commission as Major in the army, the to the shore. On the left was a swamp document conferring the well-merited hon- through which runs the outlet of Reelfoot or being made out with all due formality, Lake, in front were the gunboats, on the and having attached the great seal of the right was the Mississippi, and they found, State. Probably no lady in America ever when too late, General Paine, with a before had such a distinguished military strong force, posted in their rear. The honor conferred upon her. rebels were caught in a trap from which there was no possible escape. A bloodSafeguard for Body and Soul. less victory, with two thousand prisoners, Charlie Merrill, a young Massachusetts was the immediate result. Great numsoldier, had an ounce ball pass through bers fled to the swamps, but were soon his head during the battle of Fredericks- glad to surrender, raising the whole numburg. It entered near his right eye and ber of prisoners taken there, at the Island, was extracted behind his left ear. Anoth- and other places, to near five thousand er ball would have entered a vital part of men. Thus, what the rebels acknowlhis body had it not been arrested by a Tes-edged to be the key to the Mississippi, a tament, in which it lodged. When this safe- position strong by nature, and fortified guard was shown the President, he sent with consummate skill and great expense, to the hospital a handsome pocket Bible, and defended by five thousand men and in which, as an evidence of his warm regard, he caused to be inscribed: "Charles W. Merrill, Co. A., 19th Massachusetts, from A. Lincoln." One of the Most Brilliant Achievements of the War. one hundred cannon in battery, most of them very heavy, and numbers of them rifled, was taken, and the whole army captured by General Pope and Commodore Foote, without the loss of a single man. History will record it as, taken all in all, one of the most wonderful and brilliant achievements of the war. An incident occurred to the rebel forces stationed in the shore batteries at Island No. 10, which illustrates how easily, fortuSources of Merriment in Camp. itously, or perhaps it ought rather in this case to be said providentially, an army The funniest animal in the world is a may be caught in a position from which it little negro when he "lets himself out," is impossible to escape. About five thou- and their antics are a continual source of sand men were stationed in and about the merriment in camp—a monkey is nowhere shore batteries. On Sunday night, as in comparison. Nor are they lacking in soon as they saw the Pittsburg run the shrewdness, and that readiness in repartee man. which characterizes the native-born Irish- in his justification as follows: That boy Harvey is de most ungratefulest nigger I A Chaplain in General Grant's army-ever saw. He had'nt no good place, and when the latter was falling back from Ox-I brought him up to the Major, and introford, Mississippi, after Van Dorn's move- duced him to de Major, and spoke well of ment on Holly Springs-gives an account of him to de Major, and got him a good the motions of two little yellow fellows who place wid de Major, and now he's puttin' had caught an old mule, and were follow-on more airs dan de Major." ing the rear of a regiment in advance. The older was probably ten years of age, Failed to Hold his Position: General Palmer and the other- his brother younger. a year to General Pope. As the Army of the Mississippi, under General Halleck, was approaching Corinth, General Pope, commanding the left wing, threw out a force toward Farmington, and General Palmer was ordered to occupy the ground with his brigade, the rest of the force returning to camp. The next morning the enemy, under Generals Price and Van Dorn, made an advance in Passing through a strip of woods, the younger, who rode behind, holding to his brother with both hands, had his cap knocked off by the protruding limb of a tree, and he began to cry. "Riding up," says the Chaplain, "I told him not to cry, and asked a soldier to hand him his cap, which was done cheerfully. The little fellow was "all right" in a moment, and force, and General Pope sent an orderly politely thanked us. Now,' says I, 'you to inquire if Palmer could hold his posimust take better care, and not lose your tion. cap again. When you are traveling under trees, hold on to your brother with one hand and your cap with the other." The older one turned around, and with a very dignified and grateful air said, "Thanky, Sar; thanky, Sar. Dat's jist it, Sar. Dat's what I tell 'im, Sar. But ye see, Sar, he never trabble none before, Sar!" The Chaplain concluded that, under this combined advice, the little fellow long since became an experienced "trabbler." Black Squalls. 'Jim' "Tell General Pope that I can hold my position against the world, the flesh, and the devil!" Gen. Pope. The Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of the Ohio Regiment of Infantry, had each a 'contraband' as servant. belonged to the Lieutenant-Colonel, and 'Harvey' to the Major. One day the Lieutenant-Colonel, hearing a disturbance in the rear of his tent, went out and found Before long, however, the rebels-for Jim and Harvey engaged in the amicable they were many thousand strong-comoccupation of throwing boulders at each pelled the brigade to fall back upon the others' heads. After quelling the dis- reinforcements which were ordered up. order the Lieutenant-Colonel demanded The affair being over, General Palmer an explanation of the row. Jim replied rode to the head-quarters to report, and his appearance was the signal for a hearty faces and then Cotheren poured the canlaugh from the officers present. ister into them. The advancing column "How is it, Palmer?" said General was literally torn to pieces by the fire. Pope, as he entered the tent. "Well, General," said the gallant Palmer, "I can stand the world, but the devil was too much for me!" Hoosier Straightforwardness. 'Show pity, Lord, Oh, Lord, forgive; At this, the lad on the rock became frantic in his demonstrations of delight, and as one of the battery sections sent a shrapnel which mowed down a long row of Johnnies, he swung his cap, and, shouting so that the flying rebs could have heard him, sung out, Bull-e-e-e-e! Set. 'em up on the other alley!" Encounter of Picket Wits. At times, the rebel and Union pickets He had scarcely uttered the last word were quite communicative, as the followof this line, when a private soldier in his ing dialogue which occurred at Yorktown congregation-an old man and a zealous between Joe D., of Leeds, Wisconsin, and Christian―earnestly cried out, "No, Lord, one of the graybacks, when within ten unless they lay down their arms." While rods of each other, will show. The parthe clergyman was offering the concluding ties were separated by a low, deep swale, prayer, a rifle shot was heard as if from covered with water and thick brush, comour pickets a mile beyond. The report pletely concealing the parties. Joe hearof the gun was immediately followed by ing a noise on the other side, yelled out in an exclamation from the same venerable a loud voice, Hoosier "Lord, if that's a Union shot, send the bullet straight; an' if it ain't, hit a tree with it, Lord!" Hallo, Mike! Have you got any tobacco? Secesh-with a strong Hibernian accent Secesh-I'll meet you half way. Joe agreed to do so, and advanced some distance through brush and water, and then stopped. Secesh-Where the divil are ye? Are Joe-I'm half way now. Strong Professional Illustration. The New York One-hundred and Sev-smoke! enth supported Cotheren's battery, at the battle of Antietam. During the hottest part of the fight, the enemy massed themselves opposite our front, for an assault on Cotheren's position. The battery was short of ammunition, and so reserved their fire, while throughout the whole field there came a lull in the tumult. The rebels advanced in a solid mass, with a precision of movement perfectly beautiful. It was a moment which tried the nerves of the bravest. In the mean time one of the lads- a noted sporting character from Elmira-becoming quite interested in the affair, had climbed a rock where he could view the whole scene. He occupied the place unmindful of the bullets which were buzzing like bees all around. The rebels came on until the boys could see their over. Secesh-Where's yer gunboat? mac. Secesh-Then come over in that big balloon. [Much laughter along the rebel lines.] Joe-Have you a boat? Secesh-I have, sure, and I'm coming |