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rse, Shipley's hand was on my shoulde

e do? Will yo

acks that night. Certain reasons-wholly independent of personal convenience-made me loth to part with my saddle-bags; besides this,

-with a dead horse and a lamed leg? S

traveling as a neutral and civilian, with no other object than my private ends; the slaughter of an American citizen, on his own ground, would have been simply murder, both by moral and martial law, and I heard afterwards that our Legation could not have interfered

ten paces the same v

-if you come a step

ten to argument, much l

ve got the shooting all your own way to-ni

e Judge Advocate (after he had insisted on the point of verbal accuracy), and from his office emanated a paragraph, copied into all the Washington jou

iscern that among the three men there was not a trace of uniform; they were evidently farmers, and roughly dressed "at that." So I opened parley in no g

nd that's the same thing here; we've as much authority as we want to back u

ocent traveler. So I began to discuss several points with my captors in a much calmer tone-demonstrating that from the irregularity of their challenge we could not suppose it came from any regular picket-that there were many horse-thieves and marauders about, so that it behoved travelers to be cautious-that it would have been impossible to

ust have seen his figure cross the open ground when they first fired. Long before we got back to the horses, Shipley had "vamosed" into

uld see the broad, bright eye glazing: the death-pang came very soon; he was too weak to struggle; but a quick, convuls

other well. I cannot remember to have borne a heavier heart, than when I turned away from his corpse, half shrouded in a win

eenland. The filly's head drooped wearily, as she faltered on through the half-frozen mud

suffocatingly, with a squalid crowd, in and out of uniform: prominent, in the midst, stood the long, lank, half-dressed figure of the lieutenant in command. Neither he nor his men were absolutely uncourteous, when they on

oint of "the Sharp's" bullet had just reached the bone), he took great interest in the search of my saddle-bags; desiring to be

boys; as don't know what nothing costs that

tmosphere-laden with every graveolent horror; besides, I had not escaped from London "ch

, out here, I dare say, I haven't paid for anything for twenty years. But, if I had

word for earnest, and remained silent for some time; ruminating

man who had fired the last fatal shot-I reflected, with some satisfaction, that the fugitive had a long two hours' "law," The guard-room cl

rs showed themselves civil, and almost friendly, after their fashion. They were very like big school-boys-those honest Volunteers-prone to rough jokes and rude horse-play amon

and Southern infantry is renowned; and two or three raw-boned giants, topping six feet by some inches; but not one p

e truth: they had run down Shipley, after all. He was so utterly exhausted, both in mind and body, when first brought in, that he could hardly speak: he was not of a hardy constitution, and he had undergone fatigue enough-to say nothing of the fearful weather-to have broken down a more practiced pedestrian. Dolley's party were not the actual captors, though they were hard

certain extent, by my associations; and his simple joviality was somewhat clouded by an uneasy sense of responsibility. Nevertheless, the evening passed quickly enough round the guard-room fire; the men sang some simple ch

y when I read in the papers, a month later, of their capture by Imboden's division, after an obsti

ir of brown overalls, an old blue uniform coat, about three sizes too small for him, and the very tallest black hat, that, as I think, I ever beheld. Slight as my wound was, it had quite crippled me for the time; a farmer, however, for a moderate consideration, found

in person, and had lost two sons in the Northern army from disease, one of whom had been imprisoned for six months by the Confederates. After his first excitement had passed away, he bore himself not unkindly towards me; though, at Greenland, he did greatly bewail the darkness that had caused him to take a costly life instead of a worthless one; Falcon would have fetched five hundred dollars in those parts; even at my own valuation, I could not have been appraised so highly. So I listened to him twice or thri

ard-not without a savage satisfaction-that Imboden's horsemen had harried his homestead thoroughly in their last raid; Dolley only saving his life by "run

istakably that of a soldier and gentleman. He treated me with the utmost courtesy. I also met with no small kindness from the adjutant of the artillery corps, an old Crimean. Unluckily, Colonel Mulligan could not

lged with a most welcome bath, and breakfast. Soon afterwards

reason, Major Darr affects a Napoleonic curtness and decision of speech. Nevertheless, he was amenable to reason, and on my agreeing to p

ciated some really fine scenery on the Laurel and Chestnut ranges. We reached Baltimore about three, A. M., and I

as unwell, I believe, or unusually sulky), but I underwent a lengthened interrogatory at the mouth of a very young and girlish-looking aide-de-camp. In the midst of this, rather an absurd incident occurred. General Schenck's headquarters are at the Eutaw House. The fair daughter of a house at which I had been very intimate-was to be married that same day, and at that same house the bridegroom's party were staying. Suddenly, through an opening

imprisoned destitute, to make me determined never to cross the threshold unless under actual coercion. I said as much to the cavalry sergeant who had me in charge; suggesting that, by taking the four A. M. train on the following morning, we should arrive hours before the Provost Marshal's or Judge Advocate's offices were open. He was civilly rational about the whole question, and, on my parole not to attempt escape, readily consented to accompany me to a house, where I was more at home than anywhere else in Baltimore. Th

son, whose slumbers I was compelled to break by the most disagreeable of all morning apparitions-a friend in trouble. I could only just stay long enough to receive condolences, and

receive with perfect confidence," &c., &c.,-I did strive, to the best of my powers, to forget no important incident or word relative to my conduct since I landed in America; only making reservations where confession might implicate other

ations. On the 21st of May, Major Turner's duty brought him to Carroll place, and he remained there two full hours: the superintendent, who had conferred with the prison surgeon on the state of my health, pressed him strongly to see me. The Judge-Advocate refused, on the ground that the case was already decided, and would be settled in a day or so, at furthest; that same afternoon he departed on a fortnight's leave, knowing right well that no steps could be taken in the matter til

ife ever bring me face to face with that jovial Judge, on any neutral ground, by my faith and honor I will say in his ear five short words not hard to understand. On the steps of Carroll

to; he assured me that the latter should be telegraphed for at once from Wheeling; and so, with the pleasantest of smiles, and a jest on his lips, handed me over to Colonel Baker, who was already in waiting. This official's overt functions are those

ng: I simply passed through his office to the Old Capitol; n

ut in a sort of depend?nce, a couple of hundred yards off, called Carroll place; t

arrival, and in his first sentence gave me a specimen of the bru

men here. My father was an Englishman; but I've no symp

oom, two days later, he repeated exactly the same formula, without variation of a syllable, I thought it better to assure him that the iteration was absolutely unnecessary, inasmuc

-d high-handed sort

. 20, and in a few minutes experienced that great rarity of a "fresh sensation

e to anything of a calibre not exceeding that of a rolled newspaper. A deep, narrow trough, ingeniously excavated in a pine-splinter, enabled us to pledge each other in mutual libations, devoted to our better luck and speedy release. The neighbors, with whom I chiefly held commune, were an Episcopal clergyman and a captain in the Confederate army. Of these, more her