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after singing his Lutheran chants, till in | Paducah. Whilst there, three of King's the tent door, close to which he lay, look- robbing band visited the house, demanded ed a rebel soldier, just arrived with other the gun, and alarmed Mrs. Bassford, who prisoners. He started when he saw the ordered a son some fifteen years old, to Lieutenant, and quickly kneeling down find the gun and deliver it over. The by him, called "Henry! Henry!" But boy, after considerable search, found the Henry was looking fixedly at some one a gun; the robbers then demanded a pistol, great way off, and could not hear him, which they were informed belonged in the "Do you know this soldier?" he was ask- family, whereupon the above-named ed by the nurse. "Oh, yes, ma'am; and daughter told them she knew where the his brother is wounded and a prisoner, pistol was, but they could not get it. The too, in the cars, now." Two or three men started after him, found him, and carried him from the cars to the tent. Henry did not know him though; and he threw himself down by his side on the straw, and for the rest of the day lay in a sort of apathy, without speaking, except to assure himself that he could stay with his brother, without the risk of being separated from his fellow prisoners.

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Those who would read the most spirited narratives portraying Southern bravery, will find Mr. Orville J. Victor's 'History of the Southern Rebellion,' a work of incomparable value, presenting as it does every noteworthy occurrence with the skill of an accomplished historian, and in the best literary dress,-being accepted also as an authoritative work, both North and South, in respect to the Southern side of the great struggle-its military and political bearings, by the pen of a Southern sympathizer.

"Sweet Seventeen" overhauling the Seces

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robbers insisted, with loud, vulgar oaths, but the girl was determined. Seeing they were foiled in this, they ordered the feeble, sickly boy, to mount up behind one of their clan, as they intended to take him to Camp Beauregard in place of his-Lincolnite father.' The boy and mother in tears protested, but to no effect, and the boy was in the act of mounting, when the heroic sister A noble and well nigh tragical act was stepped between her brother and the robperpetrated in the spring of 1862, by a bers, and drawing, cocking and presenting young lady of Graves County, Kentucky, the pistol, ordered her brother back to the -Miss Anna Bassford, a gentle creature house, and, with eagle-piercing eye fasof seventeen rosy summers. Her father tened on the robbers, and death-dealing and family were devotedly for the Union. determination in her countenance, dared The old man having information that the the scoundrels to hinder or touch her notorious H. C. King, expelled from the brother, and she would lay the robber Kentucky legislature for treason, and his dead at her feet! There was no parleyrobber band intended to visit the house ing after this utterance and attitude-the for the purpose of taking horses, guns, three brigands scampered off and left the etc., hid the gun and carried the horses to family without further molestation.

Fighting for his Country and Deserted by

his Wife.

B

by name, who removed thither from a small town in Illinois, not far from the city of Galesburg. He had purchased a farm in the latter place, but the title proving defective he had removed to Wyoming, where the person of whom he had bought the land resided, and there in the courts of Jones County prosecuted his claim to judgment.

Just before his discharge and return he received a letter from his wife, dated MarIn the pleasant little village of Wyo-quette, Michigan, in which she announced ming Jones County, Iowa, lived a plain- her intention of coming to Chicago to meet spoken, honest farmer, J him. On his reaching that city, he found her at the Eagle Hotel, opposite the Northwestern depot. The two children he had left in 1861, had become three. Upon her bosom slumbered an infant scarcely nine months old, the fruit of her liaison with M- —. Mr. B― was naturally indignant, and threatened to take the children and leave the woman to follow her evil inclinations without hindrance. By Twelve years before, in the city of New some means she pacified him, and induced York, he had married a blooming Celtic him to take a glass or two of liquor, and damsel, and by her had been made the he slept. While thus slumbering, the happy father of two beautiful children- woman, he said, entered his chamber and one, a bright, intelligent boy, attained to robbed him of about three hundred dolhis eleventh year, and another, a girl, in lars, the savings of his three years' serher sixth year. When he removed to vice. With this and his two children and Wyoming he took along with him a young the one whose paternity he ascribed to man named G-— M—, because his M-, she took the cars for Detroit, acevidence was necessary to enable him to maintain his suit in the Iowa courts. And from this source came his unexpected and calamitous troubles.

During the summer, B- and Mboth enlisted in Company H, Fourteenth Iowa infantry, Colonel William Shaw commanding, and together went to the front.

companied by a miner from Marquette, named McC- in whose company she arrived in Chicago, and who, unknown to B-, had stopped at the same hotel with her, in the assumed relation of her brother-in-law.

The woman had not been long away before the eldest child, the lad before menSoon after, M- - deserted, and tioned, returned to the hotel, having esD lost all track of him. After a caped from the custody of his mother, just considerable lapse of time, a young man as the cars were starting. From him the named JC received a letter father learned all that was necessary to be which covered one addressed to M- known of his wife's temptation and fall. This was shown to B, and he and He said that some time after M-—— deC― concluded to break it open. Judge serted he came to Wyoming, and while of poor B―'s surprise when he found there maintained the relations of a husthat it was from his own wife, breathing band with his mother. The citizens of the most intense love and devotion for his that village becoming cognizant of the quondam comrade. His resolution was scandal, it was thought best to remove. soon taken. He obtained a furlough and They went to Marquette, Michigan, and returned to his home and took his wife to opened a boarding house. Here the child, her friends, who were then in Port Sar- the fruit of their morganatic union, was nia, Canada West. After the expiration born. He filled the place of husband to of his leave of absence, he returned to the woman, passing well until, tempted by his regiment, from which he heard from the high price of substitutes, he sold himher but seldom. self to a drafted man, and abandoned the

woman he had taught to deviate from the ond Lieutenant in the same company; but paths of rectitude and virtue. She re- Jeb was now a Major-General, and Baymained not long inconsolable, but speedily ard a Brigadier. During the interview a formed another connection with the man wounded Union soldier lying near was McC, with whom she went to Chi- groaning and asked for water. cago, and under whose auspices she robbed

"Here, Jeb," said Bayard-old time

her husband of his money and his child. recollections making him familiar, as he The guilty pair then went to Detroit, and tossed his bridle to the rebel officerfinally to Canada. "hold my horse a minute, will you, till I fetch that poor fellow some water."

Rare Page in Woman's History.

A gentleman in Ithaca, New York, had

Jeb held the bridle. Bayard went to a stream and brought the wounded man an idea that women could do more with some water. As Bayard mounted his their needles if they did less with their horse, Jeb remarked that he had not for tongues, and he therefore promised fifty some time "played orderly to a Union

dollars to the Soldiers' aid Society of the village, if twelve women could be found who would sew all day without speaking. Fifteen candidates presented themselves, and, mirabile dictu, fourteen' of them succeeded in keeping quiet. They were sorely tempted by various lookerson, but only one yielded to "woman's infirmity." Heroic fourteen! It is doubtful whether such an instance of female silence, in promiscuous company, was ever known before, and the fact speaks well for the earnestness and sincerity of their regard for the soldiers. To no stronger test could their patriotism have been subjected.

"Jeb" Stuart Playing Orderly to General

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Bayard.

During the week of battles in front of Washington, General Bayard went forward, under a flag of truce, to meet and confer with his old comrade in arms, the famous J. E. B. Stuart, of the rebel cavalry. Less than two years previously, Jeb was first Lieutenant and Bayard sec

Castle Thunder.

General." The business проп which they met was soon arranged, and the old friends parted-a fight, which had ceased when they were engaged talking, recommencing with great fury on both sides the moment each got back to his own ranks. Jeb's fighting against his country's flag was, after all, a small sin compared with his complicity in the horrors of Libby Prison and Castle Thunder-those modern bastiles, under the regime of Davis, Lee, Stuart, and their myrmidons.

Such incidents as the above, however, attest the old adage that none are so bad, some good redeemeth not,' and that

even Stuart was no exception. "Miles O'Reilly," (the brave Colonel Halpine,) has told many of these good things, and has promised the public a volume full of his fresh and inimitably piquant military jottings, than which nothing could be more acceptable to the "Universal Yankee Na

tion."

Racy Conversation between Mrs. Polk and

General Mitchell on "the Situation."

Merriment in the Wrong Place. After one of the bloody Virginia engagements, the wounded among the Confederates received all possible attention on the part of the Union soldiers, though the want of suitable accommodations was sadly felt. In one of the spots to which the sufferers had been removed, a Federal soldier came along with a pail of soup to fill the canteens and plates, and stopping before a fine athletic fellow, who, it turned out had been married only three days previously, said:

When passing through Nashville, General Mitchell, in company with a number of other distinguished officers, called upon "Come, pardner! drink yer sup. Now, Mrs. Polk, the widow of President James ould boy, this 'ill warm ye; sock it down, K. Polk. The lady made no attempt to and ye'll see yer sweetheart soon. You Go 'way now! conceal her strong sympathies with the re- dead, Allybammy? bellion, and singling out General Mitchell, You'll live a hundred years-you wil; said to him,

“General, I trust this war will speedily terminate by the acknowledgment of Southern independence."

The remark caused a lull in the conversation, and all eyes were turned to General Mitchell, awaiting his response. For a moment he stood in silence, his lips firmly compressed, and then, in tones of deepest earnestness and solemnity, he replied:

"Madam, the man whose name you bear was once President of the United States. He was an honest man and a true patriot. He administered the laws of this Government with equal justice to all. We know of no independence of one section of our country which does not belong to all others; and, judging by the past, if the mute lips of the honored dead who lies so near us could speak, they would express the hope that this war might never cease, if that cessation were to be purchased by the dissolution of the Union of States over which he once presided."

The effect of this remark, uttered in a calm, yet firm and dignified tone, was electrical. But Mrs. Polk, nevertheless, on more than one occasion, avowed herself true to the whole country of which her husband was once the elected ruler.

that's what you'll do. Won't he, lad? What! Not any? Get out! You'll be slap on your legs next week, and have an

other shot at me this week a'ter that.

You with the butternut trousers! Sa-ay! pardner, wake up!"

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Embalming Building before Richmond.

He stirred him gently with his foot: he bent down to touch his face-a grimness came over his mood of merriment; the man was stiff and dumb,-ready to be buried forever from human sight, or be embalmed for conveyance to his once hapPy home and kindred.

Miss Captain Taylor, of the First Ten

nessee.

One of the features of the First Tennessee Regiment, was a brave and accomplished young lady of but eighteen sum

mers, and of prepossessing appearance, van. Just before taking up their line of named Sarah Taylor, of East Tennessee, march, they all knelt, and lifting up their the step-daughter of Captain Dowden, of right hands, solemnly swore never to rethe First Tennessee Regiment. Miss Tay- turn without seeing their homes and lor was an exile from home, having joined loved ones.

Female Loveliness at Fort Henry.

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the fortunes of her step-father and her wandering companions, accompanying them in their perilous and dreary flight appeared to present itself when our army Not a single atom of Union sentiment from their hearths and homesteads. She formed the determination to share with Even the women were as bitter and unreached the neighborhood of Fort Henry. her late companions the dangers and fa- relenting in their hatred of the Yankees, tigues of a military campaign; and to as could be the most unregenerated son this end, she donned a neat blue chapeau, of the 'chivalry.' beneath which her long hair was fantasti"I shan't run ef my ole man did "cally arranged, bearing at her side a high- screamed one muscular termagant, in a ly finished regulation sword, and silver-highly pitched key, as the scouts made mounted pistols in her belt, all of which gave her a very neat appearance. She lieve die now as any time. You think "shoot if you want to; I just as became quite the idol of the Tennessee you're goin to take the Fort, but you'll boys, who looked upon her as a second Joan of Arc, believing that victory and get fooled-thar's a right smart heap o' glory would perch upon the standards borne in the ranks favored by her presMiss Captain Taylor was, indeed, all courage and skill. Having become an adept in the sword exercise, and a sure shot with a pistol, she determined to lead in the van of the march-to return her exiled countrymen to their homes, if it cost the sacrifice of her own life's blood.

ence.

men thar!"

Just then some of the scouts came in

lugging a butternut native, whom they fished out of the bushes, and who proved to be her "ole man."

you

let

and took to the bush! But don't "I tole you you oughtener done gone down an inch-if they shoot you, don't let down an inch!"—and screaming like When the order was issued to the Ten- in their face, and was an hyena, she banged the door furiously nesseans to march to reinforce Colonel She was about an average specimen of Garrard, the wildest excitement pervaded the sex as found in the vicinity of Fort the whole camp, Miss Taylor mounting Henry.

She wore a blue blouse,

seen no more.

her horse, and, cap in hand, galloping along the line like a spirit of flame, cheer- Red, White and Blue,-God's Flag. ing on the men. When the Federal troops first made and was armed with pistols, sword and their appearance near Bardstown, Kenrifle, and the persecuted Tennesseans tucky, a little boy, who just then discovlooked upon the daring girl who followed ered a beautiful rainbow arching the their fortunes through sunshine and shad- heavens, ran to his mother and exclaimed, ow, with the tenderest feeling of venera-" Mother, God is a Union man." His tion, and each would willingly have offered mother questioned him for his reason for his life in her defence. There was but thinking so, and the little fellow replied little sleep in the camp on Saturday night, that he had seen his flag, and it was so great was the joy of the men at the " Red, White, and Blue." Surely, "Out prospect of meeting the foe, and at a very of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast early hour in the morning they filed away thou ordained strength because of thine jubilantly, with their Joan of Arc in the enemies."

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