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 d-you, 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 LAVIS. 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 requested 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.

while your officers were permitted to enjoy 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.

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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. He 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

were the first troops to reach the conquered 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

of General Butler, had lately been cre- that to that excellent chaplain and popuated Brigadier-General, and the extenu- lar writer, Mr. Trumbull, is due this firstated forces of the department were ex- rate narrative; or, at any rate, every Conhausted to furnish him with a brigade necticut reader will find himself deficient suitable to the execution of the plans in some of the best written and always which he proposed. truthful memorabilia of the war, who has Weitzel did not want the Twelfth Con- not Trumbull's racy sketches, as penned necticut. It was generally believed that by him in the camp and on the field of the regiments which garrisoned Camp battle. Parapet were not only sickly but broken in spirit and undisciplined, which, in a qualified but not disparaging sense, had some foundation. At any rate, the word had gone abroad that the regiment was undisciplined, and so General Weitzel did not want the Twelfth Connecticut.

Tom. Taylor's Flag of Truce. On the 8th of July, 1861, a singular affair, in the way of a rebel flag of truce, took place at Washington. It appears that while Colonel Andrew Porter, of the United States army, was scouting at the But shortly after the regiment had head of a party of eighteen in the immejoined his brigade, he came upon it in one diate vicinity of the disunion lines on the of its battalion drills, and, taking com- other side of the river, a party of twentymand, hurried them on the double-quick two mounted disunion troops was observed through movement after movement, with approaching them. Colonel Porter imthe intention as it seemed, of puzzling mediately placed his men in position for a them, and so finding occasion to report brush, and awaited their nearer approach. their unfitness for immediate field service. Perceiving, when they got in hailing disIt was, "Double column at half distance; tance of him, that one of them had in his battalion, inward face; double-quick, hand trailing, a white flag, he demanded march!" And then," Form square; that they should halt where they were, right and left into line, wheel; double- and explain their errand. They came to quick, march!" And then, "Reduce a halt, and declared that they bore an imsquare; double-quick, march!" And portant communication from Davis to the then, "Column forward, guide right; President of the United States. double-quick, march" And then,-" De- Colonel Porter requested them to disploy column; right companies, right into mount, and approach with it on foot, a line, wheel; left companies, on the right into measure of precaution rendered necessary line; battalion, guide right, double-quick, by the fact that the officer bearing the ma-r-c-h!" And so on for half an hour, flag, was accompanied by a larger escort as fast as the men could trot, and the offi- than that (twelve men,) incident to the cers drill, the ranks. But there was not presence of a flag of truce. His request an instant's tangle in reeling and unreel- was complied with, and he found their re⚫ing the difficult skein. If there was any presentation correct. The disunion offthing that the Lieutenant-Colonel com- cer proved to be Captain Tom. Taylor, of manding loved, if there was any thing Frankfort, Kentucky, a kinsman of Old the old General excelled in, it was tacti- Zack's, who bore a sealed letter from Jeff. cal evolution. The regiment had been Davis to President Lincoln, according to drilled in battalion and drilled in brigade, a representation upon its back, written till it went like a watch. Weitzel rode and signed by Beauregard at Manassas, off satisfied with the Twelfth Connecticut; explaining the fact, and asking that Capand the regiment was equally pleased with tain Taylor might be facilitated in his its smart young general. We believe mission.

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Accordingly, Colonel Porter sent Cap- early afflicted with the secession fever, tain Taylor and his missive forward with and when the Confederates occupied that an officer and an orderly, and directed the portion of Kentucky, the sickness assumed disunion escort to return forthwith into a malignant form. It was his practice to their own lines-himself and the picket lie around a tavern at Bacon Creek Staguard with him, following them for some tion, drink whisky, swagger, blow about distance, to see that that direction was Southern rights, and insult Union men. properly carried out. When, however, the Union troops adCaptain Taylor was carried immediately vanced to Nevin, and the Confederates fell to General McDowell's head-quarters, back to Green River, Buz changed his where, by telegraph, directions were re-tune. He was not disposed to take up ceived to send him to General Scott's arms in behalf of the cause he representhead-quarters at Washington. He arrived ed. In fact, to secure peace and safety at under a guard at seven P. M., and after a home, he expressed his willingness to brief interview with General Scott, where-" take the oath." in Captain Tom. Taylor told his story as he had doubtless been instructed to tell it, he was sent to the President, bearing the sealed missive from Jeff. Davis to that when he could do good for the rebel that functionary.

His business was disposed of at the White House in a very few minutes; for in that time he was sent back to General Scott with one letter less than he bore on his person on entering the Union lines, the President not deeming the communication he brought such as required him to enter into any correspondence with Davis.

On being lectured by Union men, he stated that he was only 'going through the form, to prevent being troubled at home,

Gen. Alex McCook.

Captain Tom. Taylor, of Uncle Sambo's cavalry, was next immediately faced in the direction from which he came, and marched back to General McDowell's head-quarters, where, though courteously and kindly treated, he was kept under a strict guard until an early hour the next morning, when he was escorted back to Uncle Sambo's lines, and turned loose to find his way back to Beauregard, without in the least.' It was some time before having accomplished what was evidently a main point to be attained by his mission -viz.: to communicate with traitors in Washington, who had doubtless prepared to send to Beauregard, through him, important information concerning contemplated military movements.

McCook's Pass for Old Buz.

A man named Buz Rowe, well known in the neighborhood of Bacon Creek, was

Buz could get a Union man to go to the camp with him, but finally, in company with such, he called on General McCook, and asked for the privilege of taking the oath and obtaining a pass. The General knew his man, and addressing the Union man who accompanied him, said:

"Administer the oath to him-a ready traitor to his country! What regard do you suppose he would have for the solemn obligations of the oath? A man, sir, who

would betray his country, has no respect drily replied that he "must have picked for his oath." up an officer's cap somewhere," and with this very reasonable explanation the Lieutenant passed on.

Buz turned pale. The truth cut him deep, and he began to see that his time had come.

The Colonel stood his turn of 'special

The General absolutely refused to have detail' all night long and was found in the the oath administered, or to grant a pass. morning walking his post with true solHe could not get out of camp without dierly gait and pace. Having laid off some sort of a document, and he besought

the interference of those whom he had so greatly cursed, pursued and abused, when they were without protection. At last General McCook agreed to pass him out of camp, and gave him a document which read something in this way:

"To the guards and pickets. The bearer is a traitor to his country. Pass him; but, in doing so, mark him well, and if you see him hereafter prowling about our lines, shoot him at once."

This pass the brawling disunionist had to show to the whole line of guards and pickets, who all marked him well before they let him pass. Though he had previously been at Bacon Creek every day, his overcoat, his shoulder-straps appeared he was not known to show his bacon' very conspicuously in connection with the there again. One interview with General musket on his shoulder. As soon as the McCook caused him to subside. 'Doctor' Lieutenant discovered a Colonel on guard, McCook's medicine was the only kind that he approached him and courteously inproved a cure in such cases. quired how he came to be there upon guard. "Well, sir, you placed me here." Colonel Gazley Doing a little Guard Duty. With no little agitation the Lieutenant Lieutenant of one of the Ohio inquired who he was? "My name is regiments, was making a detail of men to Carter Gazley, and I am Lieutenantguard a lot of army stores captured from Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Indiana the enemy. He approached a crowd of regiment." The Colonel was speedily men all wearing overcoats, such as Uncle" released," but the Lieutenant was not sc Sam gives his soger boys,' and selected speedily relieved from his embarrassment. four or five for special duty. It happened It is to be supposed that the Lieutenant that Lieutenant-Colonel Gazley, of the "stood treat" in this case. thirty-seventh Indiana, was in the crowd, and was selected by the Lieutenant. This "Hail Columbia " in a New Version. was fun for the Colonel, and without a Colonel Granville Moody, a well known. word he shouldered his gun and went to Methodist preacher, entered the Union his post of duty. Not long afterward, the army with a will. He did not ask or seek Lieutenant, going his rounds, discovered a chaplaincy-not he; he commanded the by the firelight the bugle upon Gazley's Seventy-fourth Ohio regiment, and proved cap. He rather authoritatively inquired himself a tremendous fighter as well as a where he got that bugle? The Colonel good preacher. Fifty years, or more, of

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