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PART SECOND.

ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-VOLUNTEERING, DRAFTING, COMMUTING, SUBSTITUTING, DESERTING, ETC.

NOBLE INSTANCES OF RALLYING TO THE RANKS, AND OF ENLISTMENT AMONG THE AGED AND YOUNG; HEARINGS, LUDICROUS AND PERPLEXING, BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS; RAW RECRUITS AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS; APPLICANTS FOR EXEMPTION; RUSES AND QUIBBLES TO ESCAPE DUTY-STRANGE PHENOMENA OF NATIVITY, AGE, AND INFIRMITIES; BEWILDERED SURGEONS; LUCKLESS CONSCRIPTS; RARE BROKERAGE AND BOUNTY DEALINGS; FLUSH PURSES, HARDSHIPS AND MISERIES; SIDE-SHAKING GAIETIES, JESTS, PUNS, &c., &c.

"Sound. bugle, sound! and rally round
The Star-flag of the Free!"

"Lock the shop and lock the store,
Chalk this down upon the door-
We've enlisted for the war!"
Put it through!"

When the order came for me to join my company, sir, I was plowing in the same field in Concord where my grandfather was plowing when the British fired on the Massachusetts men at Lexington. He did not wait a minute; and I did not, sir.- Concord (Mass.) Volunteer.

I can't do anything for him, but I'll tell you what I'll do for you: In case he's drafted and gets killed,-I'll marry you myself!-Gov. TOD, of Ohio, to an aged woman soliciting her husband's exemption.

He is my all, but I freely give him to my country.-Consent of a Maine mother for her 'only boy,' a minor, to enlist.

How does he Grow 'Em ?

from the battle fields, plants them down in Massachusetts-after a while they begin to sprout, and the moment they see a chicken they make for it, when Lincoln's provost guard catches them and grafts Sherman's Georgia them into the army."

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old colcred female
one day approached
Howard's column of

army, and entering "Bless ye, say so! And are you 'uns
into conversation, ex-dead rebels?" replied the bewildered
pressed great sur- creature, completely transfixed to the spot
prise as to where where she stood.
they all came from.

A wag informed her that old Lincoln had a very productive field away up North, where he raised them at the rate of a million per year. Turning up her white eyes in blank astonishment, she exclaimed:-

"For de Lord's sake, you don't How does he grow 'em?"

say

"No, we used to be, but we're now live Yankees. I'm Bishop Polk, who preached down here in Dixie."

"De debil you aire!" exclaimed the now excited wench-" and what are you doin' here? Come after Misses Bishop and de chilen ?" "No so!

"Oh," was the reply," that is very simple. He gathers up all the dead rebels

the children!" was the profane reply; "we've come to assist in whaling-out of Jeff Davis."

"You'll hab to cotch him fust," was the

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quick response; "guess it's done gone 1813, and was present at the surrender job." of McDonough.

"Well, we'll see," said the soldier; "it's a race between us and the devil, and may be Old Nick will win the heat."

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I am now a farmer, in the town of Beaver Dam, Dodge county, and, with my son, the owner of three hundred acres of land; my son was a volunteer in the Federal army at the battle of Bull Run, had his nose badly barked and his hips broken in and disabled for life, by a charge of the rebel cavalry, and now I am going to see if the rebels can bark the old man's nose. I tell you (said the old man,) if England pitches in, you'll see a great many old men like me turning out, but the greatest of my fears is, that I shall not be permitted to take an active part in the present war."

It was the opinion entertained by all those who listened to the old man's remarks, that, if he ever should be "permitted" to be in an engagement with the enemy, he would "take an active part," and not be found to have received any wound in the back, but on the "nose"

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Should'nt wonder. Dis nigger don't care neder," remarked the dusky matron, as she right-wheeled and double-quicked side, rather. it back to the house.

Old Men Turning Out when England
Pitches In.

Two Desertions-A Double Tragedy. A striking and most sad illustration of the effects of civil war in the domestic and The attention of travelers on one of the affectional sphere is that which the followWestern railroads was considerably at- ing event discloses. A lady had resided tracted, one day, by the appearance of a with an only daughter for many years in rather oldish man among a company of Alexandria. In the course of time, a recruits for the Seventeenth (Irish) Wis- mutual friend introduced a young gentleconsin regiment, who were on board the man of his acquaintance, belonging to cars, on the way to camp; he gave his Richmond, to the family. The young peoname, as follows:ple soon became quite intimate in their

"My name is Rufus Brockway, and I social relations, and, very naturally, fell in am in the seventieth year of my age. I love. The parents on both sides consentam a Yankee from the State of New ing, the parties were betrothed, and the Hampshire; was a volunteer in the last marriage day fixed for the fourth of July. war with England for nearly three years. In the meantime, however, the Virginians I have served under Gens. Izard, McNeil, were called upon to decide on which side and Macomb, being transferred from one they would range themselves in the great command to another, as the circumstances political and military conflict then spreadthen required. I was at the battle of ing its dark wings over the land. The Plattsburg, at the battle of French Creek ladies declared themselves heartily on the in Canada, and at the battle of Chateau- side of the Government, but the gentlegay, on the fourteenth day of October, man joined the forces of his State. Such

So saying, he ordered a detail of six men and a sergeant-" good lusty fellows, with thick boots"-who paroled the recreant federals to the west border of the town, where the paroling process ceased, and the detail and crowd came back highly pleased with Jenkins's mode of paroling cowards of that genus. Jenkins's military stomach was just then in poor condition for rabbit flesh.

was the rapid and widening progress of you how I parole such pukes as you are. events, that no opportunity was afforded You are too miserable to be paroled in for any interchange of sentiments between military style. the young folks, or anything settled as to their future movements. Matters thus remained till the fourth of July, when, exactly within an hour of the time originally fixed for the marriage, intelligence was received at the residence of the ladies that the young man had been shot by a sentry two days before, while attempting to desert and join his bride. His betrothed did not shed a tear at this sudden and overwhelming information; but, standing erect, smiled, and then remarking to her mother, "I am going to desert, too," fell to the floor, while the blood bubbled from her lips, and she was soon in the embrace of death.

Jenkins's Mode of Paroling Deserters.

Notwithstanding the sympathy excited in behalf of the people of Hagerstown, at the time of the rebel raid upon them, some of the inhabitants were observed to receive the rebels with joy, spreading before them the best to be obtained for the morning meal.

Marian and her Brave Boy in Blue. An affair which took place in connection with the First regiment of Michigan engineers and mechanics, goes far to illustrate the old and never-questioned proverb that "when a woman will, she will, depend on't," &c.

In the fall of 1861, a young man conceived the idea of joining the above-named regiment. He had previously formed the acquaintance of a young girl living in the same village, whose proper name was Marian Green—and, in fact, became enamored of her. They were engaged to be married, and she protested against his going into the army. He, however, had made up his mind to go, and go he did. She threatened to follow, but was finally prevailed upon to remain at home, which, however, she only consented to do after a solemn promise that her "brave boy in blue" would ever cherish and regard her as his affianced. The following DecemLieutenant. We belong to the Union ber, Marian Green bade good-bye to her army, or did belong to it, but we don't lover at Ypsilanti, having gone there to wish to fight any longer against our South-see him "off for the wars."

On Tuesday, about noon, a lieutenant and five men, wearing the uniform of Union soldiers, crept out of some of the houses of the town where they had been concealed, and delivered themselves up. When they made their appearance before General Jenkins, the following conversa

tion occurred:

Jenkins.-Halloa! who are you, and where did you come from?

between the parties, but Marian grew tired

ern brethren; so when our forces left here, Letters passed regularly, for months, we staid behind, and to-day we came out to be paroled.

Jenkins. What did you say about "Southern brethren?" By

of being absent from her lover, and finally resolved to join him. This time she kept if I the matter a profound secret. An opporthought I had a twenty-fifth cousin who tunity was soon offered, and she set her was as white-livered as you are, I would wits to work to accomplish her long-desired kill him and set him up in my barnyard to wish. By an arrangement known only to make sheep own their births. I'll show herself and a certain surgeon, she man

aged to enlist in a detachment that was the patients. She kept her sex a secret subsequently recruited for the regiment, for a time, and would doubtless have done and in the summer of 1862, she, together so for the whole term of her enlistment, with many other new recruits, joined the had not the young man himself proved main organization, then engaged in rebuild-recreant to his trust. He wrote a letter to ing some bridges on the Memphis and her parents, informing them of the disCharleston railroad. covery, and they soon found means to bring home their long-lost daughter. She was loth to depart for home, but obedience to her parents rendered it necessary that

Although Marian had informed her parents that she was going to leave home on a visit to some friends in Illinois, she was soon missed, and anxious inquiries she should lose no time in doing their bidwere made concerning her prolonged ab- ding, especially since her sex had been sence from home. No tidings of her could discovered. be learned, and the sorrow-stricken parents remained ignorant of her whereabouts until she suddenly made her appearance in person, having apparently enjoyed soldier life amazingly. She, owing to her boyish appearance, while with the regiment managed to avoid the more arduous labors incident to that organization, and thus was enabled to bear up under the fatigue and exertions of a soldier's life.

In due course of time her lover returned home, and Marian Green, learning that a portion of the regiment had been discharged, proceeded to Detroit, where she met the idol of her heart. A justice of the peace was soon visited, and the happy pair were made one. After the ceremony, they returned home to the inland town from whence they came, with their hearts full of joy and their pockets lined with greenbacks.

All this was accomplished by Marian Green's enlistment as one of Uncle Sam's "brave boys in blue.”

Taken In and Done For.

As letters written by her lover remained unanswered, save by her parents, he became sad and lonely. Could she have deserted him and eloped with another, after having so frequently assured him to the contrary? He could not, for a moment, entertain any such idea. That she would An entertaining affair occurred at the eventually prove true to her declarations, Provost Marshal's office in Springfield, he felt no doubt. Strange forebodings, Massachusetts, illustrating the truth of the however, crept over his mind, and so worked upon his feelings that, in the fall, he was taken sick, and was sent to the hospital.

well-known adage, “the best laid schemes o' mice and men," &c. A citizen of that place, desiring to put a representative into the grand army, bargained for one at nine hundred and fifty dollars with the brokers who hung around the office, ready to "take in and do for" any timid wight wishing to

But imagine his surprise, when, after a day or two in his dreary quarters, a familiar countenance there met his anxious gaze. It was none other than the one he cher- be patriotic by proxy. Two or three canished so much-that of Marian Green. didates were examined, and rejected, and What transpired at the recognition of each other at that time and place may possibly be imagined, but would be difficult to describe. Suffice it to say, however, that mutual explanations followed never to reveal the discovery then and there made. Months passed on, and still Marian Green remained in the hospital, kindly nursing The money was promised, and soon the

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the buyer was about to withdraw in despair, when the brokers announced that for nine hundred and seventy-five dollars they could "stop a man -a healthy darkey, who was on his way North, but could be induced to enlist in Springfield, for the sum named.

All a Mother Can Do.

substitute elect was produced, bearing a to go as a volunteer for one of the wards letter from his employer-a Captain in a of the city, receiving thereby the ward and returned Massachusetts regiment-to the city bounties, which, with the State and Provost Marshal, stating that the boy, his Government bounties, made him up a servant, brought from Dixie, wished to go purse of nearly one thousand dollars. as a soldier, and that the money he re- Could he have now found a dark-skinned ceived was to be placed in a savings-bank beauty, willing to have foregone the pleasfor his benefit. This philanthropy on the ures of honey-moon, he would have en Captain's part met the approval of the tered into partnership, sharing fame and board of enrollment, the young contraband fortune, for the benefit of the State aid proved to be able-bodied, and, as the sequel that a married man is entitled to. The shows, of sound and disposing mind also. last that was seen of the shrewd volunteer, While undergoing the usual sharp ques- he was marching through Boston with his tioning characteristic of the Marshal's of- "knapsack strapped upon his back," having fice, it came out that two hundred dollars given to his former master and Captain a was the sum total which he was to receive, generous gratuity as a "memento nigri.” while the disinterested Captain and the brokers were graciously to pocket the difference. Furthermore, he did not wish to At the time of the first call for volun go as "sub" for any man, but it was his teers to strike down the rebellion, a madelight to march and fight as a Yankee tronly lady, accompanied by her son, a fine volunteer,—and draw the bounties incident youth of about nineteen years, entered a thereto. He was accordingly enlisted as gun-store on Broadway, New York, and he wished, and when the citizen and brokers purchased a full outfit for him. Selecting came for their expected papers, they were the best weapons and other articles for a politely informed that the intended "sub" soldier's use, that could be found in the was already a soldier in the service of the store, she paid the bill, remarking, with United States. The citizen cursed his evident emotion, "This, my son, is all that luck, the brokers gave vent to their wrath I can do. I have given you up to serve in true Flemish style, and claimed the boy your country, and may God go with you! to return to the man who "owned him." It is all a mother can do." The scene atProperty in man not being recognized in tracted considerable attention, and tearful the Marshal's office, he was not given up, eyes followed that patriotic mother and and the brokers went their way, sadder her son, as they departed from the place. but wiser men, threatening never to bring another "sub" to that office till "this mat- Maiden, Wife, Volunteer and Widow-Love ter was made right." The lofty indignation of the Captain on ascertaining the failure of his nice little project for filling his purse, would have overwhelmed any smaller men than those same United States officials, and the depth of his patriotism was sounded when he declared that he would not have allowed his servant to enlist had he been informed of the inten

tion.

The new recruit was jubilant over his unexpected good fortune, and, determined to make the most of his opportunities, elected

and Patriotism.

An undaunted woman was Mary Owens. This remarkable person accompanied her husband to the army, fought by his side until he fell by the hand of his country's enemy, and then returned home in full uniform, to tell the adventurous tale of her devotion and sufferings. She was in the service eighteen months, took part in three battles, and was wounded twice,-first in the face above the right eye, and then in her arm; this required her to be taken to the hospital, where she was obliged to con

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