General Rosecrans and Pat's Farlo'.

which J. K. Morehead prepared for us will make in the body of the commander- General Rosecrans was reviewing the in-chief George B. McClellan." The lamented Brigadier-General Nelson's old General, like a good soldier, calmly dis- division. He took unusual interest in that mounted, and proved his identity, gave the band of veterans, who so long and so nobly word, and praised the young man for his had defended their country. He rode conduct, telling him whenever he wanted

a favor, just to let him know.

Worse to lose Five than One.

In the first action in which Grant commanded, his troops at first gained a slight advantage over the Confederates. They began to plunder the Confederate camp, in spite of all that Grant could do to stop them. At last Grant, who knew that Confederate reinforcements were coming up, got some of his friends to set fire to the camp so as to stop the plundering. Then he got his troops together as well as he could, and retreated; but, in the mean time, the Confederate reinforcements came

Gen. Rosecrans.

up, attacked Grant, and defeated him. along alone between the ranks, talking to There were five Colonels under Grant the men, and inquiring into their individwho had not by any means supported him ual wants. Some wanted shoes, some efficiently in his attempts to stop the plun- blankets, some an increase of rations, etc. dering and collect his troops. Mr. Osborn Finally the General stopped in front of saw Grant a day or two afterwards, when an Irishman, apparently well pleased with he expected to be deprived of his com- his soldierly appearance. mand on account of the defeat. He said: "Why do you not report these Colonels? They are the men to blame for not carrying out your orders."

"Why," said Grant, "these officers had never before been under fire; they did not know how serious an affair it was; they have had a lesson which they will not forget. I will answer for it they will never make the same mistake again. I can see by the way they behaved in the subsequent action that they are of the right stuff, and it is better that I should lose my command, if that must be, than the country should lose the services of five such officers when good men are scarce."

Grant did not lose his command, and three out of the five officers subsequently greatly distinguished themselves.

"Well, Pat," says the General, "and what do you want?"

"A furlo' plase your honor!" answered Pat.

"You'll do, Pat!" said the General, as he rode away, laughing.

A fund of exceedingly readable incidents concerning 'Old Rosy' and his soldier boys, may be found in the very racy volume by 'W. D. B.,' entitled Rosecrans' Campaigns.

Mother-Corporal on a Ten Days' Furlough.

The lady friends of a certain Corporal sent him a box; and among the many good things packed by fair but rogueish hands was a life-size doll, dressed in full Zouave uniform, which the fun-loving damsels won at a soldiers' fair. The Corporal, after getting the box, was taken sick. The boys now started the rumor that the Cor

poral was a woman and had given birth | discharged his duty, received orders to to a boy. The rumor spread like wild- return to the army. He started towards fire; hundreds flocked to said quarters Manassas at a rattling pace, but had not to see the wonderful phenomenon-a new proceeded many miles along his circuitous born babe-but the insiders guarded the route, ere he fell in with the Confederate tent with zealous care, only allowing pry- cavalry patrols and pickets, who were exers to catch a passing glimpse of the sup-tremely vigilant; and although custom posed mother and babe. A number of had made the officer sharp-sighted at night, men were to be found who would swear they frequently halted him before he had they had seen both. But the cream of the the slightest notion of being within many joke was yet to come off; the Corporal miles of their vicinity. To add to his received a ten days' furlough-all thought misery and delay, he had not the counternow, for certain, it was the mother going sign, and therefore was marched off to the home with her babe; some had it that she nearest guard-post to account for himself. was a rich heiress escaping from a tyrant father; but hundreds believed in the mother-corporal and young recruit of Company I, of the Zouaves d'Afrique.

Obeying Orders in his Own Way.

"Can't help it, comrade," said the cavalry-man, "I believe your words, and think I have frequently seen you before; but orders are orders, you know, and we must obey."

He was handed over to the next picket, and so on, until, reaching the central picket station, the Captain commanding examined him rigorously, and upon the officer presenting papers of identity, the Captain politely gave him the countersign, saying:

given you is good among the outer pickets; when you reach the infantry, be careful how you act, for they have another one, and are particularly wakeful to-night, and thick as flies!"

Just before the charge made by Fremont's Body Guard at Springfield, Mo., Major Zagonyi directed one of his buglers, a Frenchman, to sound a signal. The bugler did not seem to pay any attention whatsoever to the order, but darted off with "It was well, perhaps, you fell in with Lieutenant Maythenyi. A few moments our men, for the road you were taking afterwards he was observed in another must have led you nearer the present lines part of the field vigorously pursuing the of the enemy than you care about finding flying infantry. His active form was yourself, I know: the countersign I have always seen in the thickest of the fight. When the line was formed in the Plaza, Zagonyi noticed the bugler, and approaching him, said: "In the midst of battle you disobeyed my order. You are unworthy to be a member of the Guard. I dismiss Acting upon this advice, he plunged you." The bugler showed his bugle to forward boldly, and was in high spirits, his indignant commander-the mouth- singing right heartily, for the numerous piece of the instrument was shot encampments were visible for He said: "The mouth was shoot off. I many miles around. But-" Halt! halt!" could not bugle viz mon bugle, and so I was the challenge suddenly given by halfbugle viz mon pistol and sabre.” It is a-dozen; and from their guns leveled at unnecessary to add, the brave Frenchman him, he saw there was no fun about them. was not dismissed. "Who goes there!" "Officer without the countersign!" "Advance officer!”— which he did, very meekly, for could they have seen him even wink improperly, he would have been instantly riddled with half-a-dozen shots. Here he went through

Confederate away.

Shaken Down among the Pickets. A Confederate officer who had been detached from the ranks on some special service, at the battle of Manassas, having

GEN. NELSON. How many men have

DAVIS. About twenty-five hundred, General.

the operation of being handed over from and have called to inquire if I can obtain one to another, until fairly out of patience. arms for them. The corporal of the guard would do no more than hand him to the sergeant, you? the latter to the lieutenant of the guard; the last to the officer of the night, and he to the officer of the day-so that, from NELSON (roughly and angrily). About being handed from one to another, it got twenty-five hundred! About twenty-five rumored about among some of the soldiers hundred! By G! you are a regular that he was a spy and soon there was a large crowd at his heels, bestowing all manner of uncomplimentary epithets. The rumor spread among the regiments through which he was then passing; and while in the tent of the officer of the day making explanations, one loquacious gentleman, who stood peeping through a rent in the tent, was heard to exclaim

"The Captain's got him, he's a spy, and they've got the papers on him! I hope they'll detail me as one of the firing party; won't I let him have it good!"

After a few moments of explanation, he remounted again; and his sudden transformation into a good and true Southerner

seemed to cause infinite disgust to many, officer, and come here to me and report but particularly to the ragged gentleman about the number of men in your comwho was so anxious to make one of the "firing party."

Tragical Encounter between Generals Nelson and Davis.

mand!
you, don't you know,
sir, you should furnish me the exact num-
ber?

DAVIS. General, I didn't expect to get the guns now, and only wanted to learn. if I could get them, and where; and, having learned the exact number needed,. would then draw them.

good mind to put you under Leave my room, sir!

When the alarm was raised in Louisville, Ky., in the autumn of 1862, that the Confederates were marching on that city, General Davis, who could not reach his NELSON (pacing the room in a rage).. command under General Buell, then at About twenty-five hundred? By -, I Bowling Green, went to General Nelson suspend you from your command, and or-and tendered his services. General Nel-der you to report to General Wright; and son gave him the command of the city I've a militia so soon as they were organized. arrest. General Davis opened an office and went DAVIS. I will not leave, General, until to work in assisting the organization. On you give me an order. Wednesday, General Davis called upon NELSON. The General Nelson in his room at the Galt House, when the following conversation took place, as reported in the newspapers: GEN. DAVIS. I have the brigade, General, you assigned me, ready for service,

you won't! By I'll put you under arrest, and send you out of the city under a provost guard! Leave my room, sir!

General Davis left the room, and, in order to avoid an arrest, crossed over the

river to Jeffersonville, where he remained send me out of the State under a provost until the next day, when he was joined guard.

by General Burbridge, who had also been NELSON (striking Davis with the back relieved by Nelson from his command. of his hand twice in the face). There, General Davis went to Cincinnati with dyou, take that.

NELSON (indignantly). I don't know hands and caught a gentleman near by that I did, sir. around the neck, and exclaimed, "I am DAVIS. You threatened to arrest and shot!" He then walked up the flight of

stairs toward General Buell's room, but men, their clothing stripped off of them, sank at the top of the stairs, and was una- and their bodies exposed without the ble to proceed further. He was then con- slightest regard for common decency. veyed to his room, and when laid on his Humanity has seldom marked your course bed requested that the Rev. Mr. Talbott, whenever our men have been unfortunate an Episcopal clergyman stopping in the enough to fall into your hands. At Belhouse, might be sent to him at once. The mont, your authorities disregarded all the reverend gentleman arrived in about five usages of civilized warfare. My officers minutes, and found the General extremely were crowded into cotton pens with my anxious as to his future welfare. He brave soldiers, and then thrust into prison, knew that he must die immediately, and while your officers were permitted to enrequested that the ordinance of baptism might be administered, which was done. The General then whispered, "It's all over," and his spirit at once returned unto its Maker.

joy their parole, and live at the hotel in Cairo. Your men are given the same fare as my own, and your wounded receive our best attention. These are incontrovertible facts. I have simply taken the precaution to disarm your officers and men, because necessity compelled me to protect my own from assassination.”

General Buckner had no reply to make. He hung his head in shame at the rebuke.

ticut.

When General Buckner Hung his Head. Some of the Confederate officers at Fort Donelson took their surrender very much to heart. They were proud, insolent, and defiant. Their surrender was unconditional, but they thought it very Weitzel Satisfied with the Twelfth Connechard to give up their swords and pistols. One of them fired a pistol at Major Mudd, The Twelfth Connecticut had lain for of the Second Illinois regiment, wounding ten days within hearing of the bombardhim in the back. The Major belonged in ment of Fort Jackson, within sight of the St. Louis, and had been, from the begin- bursting shells and of the smoke of that ning, an ardent friend of the Union. He great torment, but still they had not as a had hunted the guerrillas in Missouri, and regiment been under fire. Though they had fought bravely at Wilson's Creek. were the first troops to reach the conHe was probably shot by an old enemy. General Grant at once issued orders that all the rebel officers should be disarmed. General Buckner, in insolent tones, said to General Grant, that it was barbarous, inhuman, brutal, unchivalrous, and at variance with the rules of civilized warfare. General Grant replied―

quered city of New Orleans, they had never yet heard the whistling of balls, excepting in a trifling skirmish on Pearl River, where five of the companies received a harmless volley from forty or fifty invisible guerrillas. Almost all that they knew of war was the routine of drill and guard duty, and the false night alarms with which the brigadier used to try and season them; though they wilted under a southern sun, and were daubed with Louisiana mud, and were sick by hundreds and died by scores.

"You have dared to come here to complain of my acts, without the right to make an objection. You do not appear to remember that your surrender was unconditional. Yet, if we compare the acts of the different armies in this war, how But they were at last to quit garrison will yours bear inspection? You have duty behind the great earthworks of Camp cowardly shot my officers in cold blood. Parapet, and go into active offensive opeAs I rode over the field, I saw the dead rations. Lieutenant Godfrey Weitzel of of my army brutally insulted by your the Engineers, the chief military adviser