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Certainly," was the reply; "as many him a volley but missed, on which the as you like. There is a German at head-Johnny, out of spite, returned the shot; quarters who steals blank passes for me, when Tyrrell, taking advantage of his and I fill them up myself. I give him empty carbine, sprang and caught him by whiskey for them."

his abundant whiskers and dragged him from his horse. Here a short struggle ensued, in which the 'chivalry' had to give way to Northern muscle, although

He would like to go South, too, he said, in conclusion. He could describe the fortifications so much better than in a map. Both parties being satisfied, an arrange- they were both good types of their respectment for the boots was made. Zeutzschell ive regions, and Johnny, minus his gun was to get the exact distances of the de- and sabre, was marched to the picket lines fences, the number and disposition of the by his escort, who guided him by walking troops, &c., and secrete them, together behind him with one hand in each side of with Mrs. Ranney's despatches, in one of his whiskers. It is useless to say that he the heels of the boots. This he did, ac- was received by the pickets with considercording to promise; the boots were made able merriment. The other reb, on seeing and delivered on the evening appointed. his comrade's fate, and hearing the whirr Instead of reaching Generals Bragg and of a few random shots, fled, and left his Morgan, however, as intended, the maps, charge to come back at his will. papers, boots, owner, maker, and spy, suddenly found themselves in the hands of Shaking Hands in the Middle of the River. the army police, much to the astonishment A detachment of Federal troops was and utter chagrin of all parties concerned. stationed on the northern bank of the PoZeutzschell and Young were sent to the tomac river; and on the opposite, or southmilitary prison.

ern bank, was stationed a detachment of the Confederate troops,-all within hailing Northern Muscle and Southern Chivalry. distance, the river being not more than one After the Federal forces had flanked quarter of a mile wide at that point (ConJohnston's army from Dallas, it was con- rad's Ferry). A challenge was proclaimtrary to the usual custom, the fortune of ed by some two or three of the Federal the First Brigade-Sheridan's old Division troops to meet the same number of the -to be left behind the army a few days, Confederate troops in the middle of the as a guard for an ambulance train. One river, where it was fordable, to shake day two of the men-one of them Jack hands and drink each other's health. The Tyrrell, Commissary of the Brigade-challenge was accepted, and divesting went out to take a bath beyond and in themselves of their arms and a portion of sight of the Federal picket line, in a small their clothing, they met, exchanged salubayou, which temerity was observed by tations, and drank together in mutual of Ferguson's cavalry hovering in friendship. These troops had been skirmthe vicinity, who detached two men, armed ishing across the river some six or eight with sabres and carbines, to bring them days previous, with cannon, rifles, and in. Being without arms they were surprised, and started off, en dishabille, in the very face of the pickets, who dared not fire for fear of injuring the prisoners. Each

some

musketry.

Longstreet's Instant Detection of a Spy.
The feverishness of the Confederates in

regard to spies, during the eventful days his charge. After going a short distance, of the Manassas conflict, was greatly inTyrrell dodged to one side, exposing his tensified by the following occurrence, as captor to the Federal pickets, who gave related by one of their officers:

While Longstreet's corps was hurrying hanging from a tree by the roadside; but forward to Jackson's relief, several brig- before death, confessed that although a ades in advance on different roads were Virginian and a Confederate soldier, he observed to halt, thereby stopping all fur- had been in communication with the enether progress of the corps. Very angry my over ten months, and was then acting at this, Longstreet trotted to the front, for General Pope. and was informed that a courier had brought orders from General Lee to that effect!

"From General Lee?" said Longstreet, his eyes glowing with rage: "Where

is that courier?"

Gen. Longstreet.

More than a Match against Six. The brilliant exploit of Captain Strong. of the Belle City Rifles, Second Wisconsin regiment, in escaping, as he did, from the Confederates, into whose clutches he unfortunately fell, was the theme of congratulation on the part of every one who knew the gallant Captain's worth. When he enlisted as a Union soldier, he was a student in Racine College, about twentyone years of age, well built, and very agile and active. He was regarded in college as the best jumper, runner, &c., and with al an excellent shot, as well as a popular comrade of the students. Of his remarkable escape he says:

As I was passing through a thicket, I was surrounded by six rebel soldiersfour infantry and two cavalry. The footmen were poorly dressed, and badly armed, having old rusty altered muskets. cavalry were well mounted and well

"There he goes now, General, galloping armed. down the road."

The

Seeing I was caught, I thought it best to surrender at once. So I said, "Gentlemen, you have me." I was asked various questions as to who I was, where I was

"Keep your eyes on him, overtake him, and bring him here," which was soon accomplished. "By whose orders did you halt my going, what regiment I belonged to, &c., brigade?" asked a Brigadier.

all of which I refused to answer. One of the footmen said 'Let's hang the Yankee scoundrel,' and pointed to a convenient limb. Another said, 'No, let's take him to camp, and hang him there.' One of the cavalry, who seemed to be the leader, said, 'We will take him to camp.' They then marched me through an open place-two footmen in front, two in the rear, and a cavalry man on each side of me. I was armed with two revolvers and my sword. After going some twenty rods, the sergeant, who was on my right, noticIn fifteen minutes the spy was lifeless, ing my pistols, commanded me to halt and

"As I have already told you-by General Lee's! I have orders for Longstreet, and must be off to the rear!"

"Here is Longstreet," said that General, now moving forward,-" Where are your orders?"

The spy was caught! He turned red and pale, his lip quivered-he was self condemned.

"Give this man ten minutes, and hang him! Let the columns push forward immediately."

was, however, uninjured this time, save the shot through my cheek. I then fired at him again and brought him to the ground

hanging by his foot in the left stirrup, and his horse galloping toward his camp. I saw no more of the horseman on my left, nor of the two footmen-but running on soon came to our own pickets, uninjured save the shot through my cheek, but otherwise much exhausted from my exertions.

give them up, together with my sword. | skin. The piece was so near as to burn I said, Certainly, gentlemen,' and imme- the cloth about the size of one's hand. I diately halted. As I stopped, they all filed past me, and of course were in front. We were at this time in an open part of the woods, but about sixty yards to the rear was a thicket of undergrowth. Thus everything was in my favor. I was quick of foot and a passable shot. Yet the design of escape was not formed until I brought my pistol pouches to the front part of my body, and my hands touched the stocks. The grasping of the pistols suggested my cocking them as I drew them Rockafellow's Right Arm left Still. out. This I did, and the moment I got Judge Kelley entered the office of Mr. command of them I shot down the two Stanton, Secretary of War, one day, having footmen nearest me-about six feet off with him a youthful-looking officer, whose one with each hand. I immediately turn- empty coat-sleeve hung from his left ed and ran toward the thicket in the rear. shoulder. He was introduced to the SecThe confusion of my captors was appar- retary as Brevet Lieut. Harry Rockafelently so great that I had nearly reached low, of Philadelphia.

other to

my

cover before shots were fired at me. One "My friend," said the Judge, "left a ball passed through my left cheek, passing situation worth eight hundred dollars a out of my mouth. Another one-a mus- year, three days after the President's procket ball went through my canteen. lamation for troops, to carry a musket at Immediately upon this volley, the two eleven dollars a month, with his regiment, cavalry separated, one to my right and the the New York Seventy-first. After the left, to cut off my retreat- term of his enlistment had expired, he the remaining two footmen charging di- marched with his regiment to Bull Run. rectly toward me. I turned when the Early in the day he received that ugly horsemen got up, and fired three or four rifle-ball in his mouth (pointing to a Minie shots; but the balls flew wild. I still ball that was hung to his watch-key), and ran on; got over a small knoll, and had for two hours and a half he carried it in nearly regained one of our pickets, when his fractured jawbone, fighting like a true I was headed off by both of the mounted hero, until a cannon-ball took off his arm and rendered him powerless. He was The Sergeant called to me to halt and captured, and for three months lay in a surrender. I gave no reply, but fired at mangled condition in a tobacco warehouse him and ran in the opposite direction. in Richmond, without proper surgical He pursued and overtook me, and just as treatment. He was breveted a lieutenant his horse's head was abreast of me, I turn- by his Colonel, for his bravery, and is now ed, took good aim and pulled the trigger, filling a small clerkship. I beg of you to

men.

but the

cap snapped. At this time his

appoint him in the regular service.”

carbine was unslung, and he was holding it
with both hands on the left side of his horse. to?" said Mr. Stanton.

"But where could I put him, if I were

He fired at my breast without raising the

The Judge was about to reply, when

piece to his shoulder, and the shot passed the young man raised his arm and said

from the right side of my coat, through it with an anxious look:

and my shirt to the left, just grazing the

"See, I have a right arm still, and Gen

eral Kearney has only his left; send me into the line where there is fighting to be done! I have letters from - ," he tried to draw a bundle of letters from his pocket. Mr. Stanton stopped him

"Put up your letters, Sir; you have spoken for yourself. Your wish shall be granted. The country cannot afford to neglect such men as you!"

to the word, he sprang upon and seized Captain Jones by the collar. For a second or two a scuffle ensued between the officers, when the latter broke loose. At the same instant one of the Mississippians dashed out the Federal officer's brains with the point of his musket.

The

Uncomfortably Warm Place for a Soldier. Ere the soldier could thank him for his A good story is told about a soldier, kindness, his case was noted. He turned who, in dodging away from a patrol, hid to leave, and remarked to the Judge as himself in a restaurant, by jumping into a they left, "I shall be proud of my comlarge box used for steaming oysters. mission, for I feel that I have earned it! lid closed with a spring lock, and the disThis day is the proudest one of my whole appointed patrol went on his way baffled. life." His heart seemed so light that he In a little while the colored man attending appeared not to realize the loss he had the apparatus turned on a full head of met with, nor the weary nights, and long, long days he had suffered in the vile prisons of the enemy. Congressman Ely came in just as he passed along the aisle and remarked, "There goes the noblest and most heroic of all our prisoners. He was the pride of the boys-all loved him as though he were a brother."

By-Scene at the Battle of Leesburg. One of the terrible personal encounters at the battle of Leesburg, is thus related: As Captain Jones, of Company B, Seventeenth Mississippi regiment, was passing through the woods at the head of his men, he met another party headed by an officer. The two halting instantly upon discovering their close proximity, Jones exclaimed, "For God Almighty's sake, tell me quick-friends or enemies-who are you?" The other replied, "We are friends," and at the same time advanced, A little boy, named Joseph Ware, who was behind the Mississippian, instantly cried out, "Captain, they are not friends; don't you see they have not guns like ours? They are Yankees, let me shout." Again Jones exclaimed, "Who are you? Speak quick, for I can't keep my men from firing." "I'll let you know who we are, you d― rebel," said the Federal officer, for such he was, and suiting the action

Uncomfortably Warm Place.

steam in order to prepare a mess for some customers. The soldier began to grow uncomfortably warm, and soon kicked and yelled lustily for liberation, until the frightened negro ran away shouting that "de debbil was in de steamer." Other em

ployees gathered around, hearing the noise, and released the perspiring soldier, who bounded with the speed of a machine whose motive power is steam.

When it was as well known as that the world exists, that Grant had forced Lee to retreat for scores of miles right steady

to the very walls of Richmond, the rebel papers declared with the coolest effrontery that Lee was getting Grant just where he wanted him, that Grant was really retreating, and Lee in close pursuit. This was about equal to the facetious Iowa editor who got a downright whaling in his printing office, and described it next day giving all the facts, but making himself the hero:-There was a blow. Somebody fell. We got up. Turning upon our antagonist, we then succeeded in winding his arms around our waist, and by a quick manoeuvre threw him on top of us, bringing our back, at the same time, in contact with the solid bed of the printing press. Then inserting our nose between his teeth and his hands in our hair, we had him!

Glorious Effect of National Music upon the
Troops.

Bleeding, but Had His Colors With Him. A sight at once horrible and sublime, was witnessed after the Gettysburg battle, among the wounded heroes whose deeds had crowned with imperishable honor the history of that all-memorable day. A strong, stalwart fellow, with the chevrons of a sergeant on his arm, ragged and torn, was limping along slowly, with agony terribly depicted upon his visage. The shoe on his right foot was covered with blood,

When General Kearney's troops were being brought into action at the battle of Williamsburg, they met the lengthened files of General Hooker's wounded being carried to the rear. The shrieks of the lacerated soldiers, bleeding and ghastly, who had been fighting so long and so well, pierced the air, and this, joined to the mud and a large rent in his pantaloons, just and rain, and the exhaustion of those who above the knee, from which the blood was had come several miles with so much also trickling, solved the question of the speed, was not calculated to produce a fa- location of his wound. He was hatless, vorable impression on them as they were his hair was disordered, his face and hands going into action. General Heintzelman, were begrimed with smoke and powder, however, ordered several of the bands to and he looked altogether maniac-like and strike up national and martial airs, and exhausted. But he had his colors with when the strains of the familiar tunes him! His regiment, or the greater part reached the ears of the wounded as they of it, had been either killed or captured; were being carried from the field, their he had lost his colors once, and was aftercheers mingled with those of the soldiers ward captured himself. He watched his who were just rushing into the battle. opportunity, killed the rebel who held his The effect, too, was great on the other flag, and escaped with it safely into the side; for some of the prisoners stated that Union lines. Ought not the name of one so when they heard the bands strike up the brave as he to be chiseled in monumental Star

diers

cheer, they knew that the victory this, that Lee and his myrmidons franti cally but vainly fought.

would be

ours.