pathizers at Baltimore.

But in her corsets was found a document
which, when taken by the lady examining
the smuggler, Mrs. Baxley rushed at her,
and, getting hold of the paper, tore it in
two. The lady examiner rushed at Mrs.
B., at the same time calling assistance.
Mr. Brigham, who stood outside while the
operation was going on, rushed into the
saloon and found Mrs. Baxley vanquished,
and the document, thougli torn, in the pos-
session of the Provost Marshal's aid. This
document proved to be a commission from
Jeff. Davis to a Diw Septimus Brown, of
Baltimore, also passes and direction for
him to run the Federal blockade, in order
to gain the rebel domains. The Dr. was
immediately arrested and sent to Fort
McHenry.

Madam Baxley was taken to a hotel and
several police officers placed on guard over
her. While locked in her room, she
dropped a note out of her window ad-
dressed to her lover (the rebel doctor) im-
ploring him, for God's sake, to fly, as all
was discovered. She was also quite dis-
heartened and said that she had braved all
dangers for the sake of her lover, and,
when on the point of having accomplished
all her cherished desires, the cup of happi-
ness (alas ! such is life and such is love !)
was dashed from her lips as she was about
drinking from it. It seemed to be her
only and darling desire to get her lover
into the rebel army, and, having succeeded,
she was only detected in her nefarious
transactions when about completing her
jnission.



Siipp«r for All: Woman's OoodneM.
One summer night, a lady belonging to
Fall River, Massachusetts, a passenger on
the Metropolis, while going from New
York with some sick and wounded prison-
ers, .seeing they were not cared for as her
gOBerous nature would dictate, and learn-
ing from them that the wants of the inner
man W4ire just then the strongest, called



the steward of the boat to lier; she says —
*' Can these men have supper ? " " No.
ma'am ; there has been no provision made
of that kind by the Government, and we
cannot provide these unless we provide
all." ^^ Can you get them all suppisr if I
will pay for it ? " « Yes." " Very well,
do so." The supper was accordingly got,
with all the delicacies on hand. No stint,
but the best, for which the sum of $150
was paid. No one was informed of the
act, no herald or newspaper reporter was
there to proclaim it. One of the recipients
of her noble bounty is the narrator of
this.



ICoaa Bryan pasrixiflr his Bespeots to Ocneral
Buxxuidde.

Among the contrabands who presented
themsc^lves to General Bumside were
Moses and Africa Bryan. The former
asked, on coming into military quartern,
for General Bumside. Having his tent
pointed out, he entered it, and proceeded



Hose Brjrttn

to introduce himself. Bowing to the Gen-
eral, he says :

"I took the liberty to call on you — lam
Moses Bryan."

" Well," says the General, " I am Gen-



Digitized by VjOOQIC



DOMESTIC, WOMANLT, HOSPITAL, PRISON, ETC.



679



era! Bomside. Are jou a good Union
man, Moees?"

"< I am that," says Mose.

" Well, then, give me your hand," says
the great-hearted hero; and he at once
clasped the hand of his sable ally : ^ Have
yon been looking for me ? " he continued.

^Tes, massa, I and my people have
watched, and have prayed for you so long
and so often," was the late bondman's an-
swer.

** What, wasn't you afraid we would sell
you to Cuba ? " the General next asked.

" No, Sir," said the other, " we know
you never do that."

And here, after mutual interchanges of
good wishes, the visitor, with a native po-
liteness which would have set well on the
sho\ilders of any one, had the good sense
to see that the interview had continued
long enough, and withdrew.



Loyalty and Abdlitioxiiam snpposed Synonl-
mavm.

At one of the leading hotels in New
Orleans, a party were one day sitting at
the breakfast table, before Louisiana liad
seceded. The question was asked, "Is
there any news this morning ? " A south-
erner, one of the most wealthy men in
the city, a burly man, accustomed to des-
potic sway among his negroes, replied
coolly, '* Nothing, except that some of our
boys went down the river last night, and
took possession of one of the United States
forts." A northern lady who was present,
a lady by birth, by education, and by posi-
tion, hesitatingly inquired, not provoking-
ly, but as a question for information, " Is
it not treason to seize a national fort ? "
This southern rebel burst out upon her
with the most intemperate, profane, and
vulgar abuse, denouncing her as a d —
Yankee and abolitionist, and declaring
that'if she were a man, he would wring
her nose for her, and that, as soon as her
husband came in, he would hold him ac-
countable, and wring his nose. No one
dared to interfere, for such men carried



bowie-knives and revolvers; and there
was no power of law to punish one for
shooting a person accused of abolitionism.
The lady was in a state of indescribable
terror. She expected, every moment, to
see her husband come in, to be first gross-
ly insulted, and then to be shot or stabbed
before her eyes. With a face pallid as
death, and a voice trembling almost beyond
control, she looked up to him, and said :

" Will you accept the apology of a lady,
when I assure you that I intended no of-
fense ? I merely wished to ask a ques-
tion for information."

** Yes," was the reply, " I will accept the
apology of a la<ly ; but you are no lady —
you are a cursed abolitionist, and I will
wring your husband's noi?e for him when I
meet him," and so on, until the lady left
the table. The gentleman and lady founl
it expedient to leave New Orleans.



Heart-rendinflT Boene.
As the severely wounded in the Vir-
ginia battles, in the summer of 1864, were
being transferred to the ambulances, a
lady from Michigan was seen looking anx-
iously around to ascertain if either of her



Soldiers' Grayet, BuU Riu.

sons was among the number. Presently
she recognized her son among the throng.
He was seated on a cofRn, and his arm
seemed to be shot off, or partly so. " Where
is Charles ? ** said the anxious parent, while



Digitized by



Google



680



THB BOOK OF ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION.



her countenance expressed the agony of in*
tense suspense and her voice oould only
find a choked utterance. ^ In this, mother/'
said the wounded man, pointing to the cof-
fin on which he sat. The scene was heart-
rending. The stricken mother had also
another son in the army.



" She Lovml a Soldlar Jji^*"
The lover of a young Ohio girl had en-
listed, and she determined to join him.
She was inspected, accepted, and sworn in
with the rest of the company ; marched
to Camp Jackson, Ohio, drilled there sev-
eral days, when she was sent with the
Third Ohio Regiment to Camp Dennison,
near Cincinnati. Here she assisted in all
the duties of forming a new camp, hand-
ling lumber, standing sentry, etc., until
Saturday, . when, ascertaining for the
first time that there were two Camp Den-
nisons, and that while she was in one her
lover was in the other, in Lancaster,
Penn., she went to Colonel Morrow, and
requested to be changed from the company
she was in, giving as her reason that she
preferred associating with Americans, and
her cQmpany was composed of Irishmen.
Her real design was, when her request
should be granted, to choose a place in
one of the companies of the Second Regi-
ment, not knowing that it would be im-
possible to change her from one regiment
to anothen CoL Morrow discovered the
secret of her sex. Marshal Thompson
then supplied her with clothing, having
enrobed herself in which, she expressed a
desire to leave, as she had friends in the
city with whom she could sojourn. She

was released.

»

V«iT Fteaaant Oorprifla ibr Two.
A sprightly young wife appeared one
day at the office of the Sanitary Commis-
sion in Louisville, asking to have a dis-
patch written for a permit to visit her hus-
band in S^^shviUe. The clerks tamed to
consult the record for his niune, which she



at once pronounced a useless delay — ^ she
knew he was in Nashville, and all she
wanted was a dispatch yrrltten, and would
be obli,ged for as much haste as possible."
" But," said the clerk, " are you quite sure
he is in Nashville?" "Certainly; no-
thing is more certain." ** You would have
no objections to meeting him here ? " the
clerk inquired again, his eye resting on an
open page, with his finger at a particular
name. The woman flushed as if annoy-
ed. "You are playing with me. Sir.
Will you give me the dispatch ? ** " No ;
you will not need it. This 'abstract'
will please you better. These are direc-
tions where to find your husband — a few
blocks off," the derk rejoined, a smOe
breaking over his fece. With one look —
such as a woman can give — to be sure
that she was not the victim of a deception,
the young wife darted away, and a few
moments afterward found that, after all,
the one she sought was not in Nashville
but right within reach of her loving arms.
Such is an illustration of the noble Sani-
tary Commission, to which such men as
Bellows and others consecrated their time
and talents during the war, — ^the noblest
scheme of military beneficence, and on the
most gigantic scale, ever undertaken in
the ages of the world.



Delivered at the Steventli Hour.
Major FuUerton, of Greneral Granger^s
staff, developed quite a little romance in
Shelbyville, Tennessee. Just as the Con-
federate forces were being driven out of
the town, the Greneral was on horseback
galloping through one of the streets, and
when passing an old dingy brick house
almost hid from view by the cedar trees
in the yard, he observed at a window in it
a young lady in her robe de nmt, beckon-
ing him toward her. Although advisrd
not to stop, he wheeled his horse around
and entered the yard. A he rebel en-
deavored to keep him fixmi entering, while
the lady called out to him that he must
come. So, pushing Mr. Rebel to one



Digitized by



Google



DOMESTIC, WOMANLY, HOSPITAL, PRISON, ETC.



681



side, the General at once passed into the
house and entered the room where the
lady was. She proved to be the beautiful
Miss Cushman, then quite ill and prostrat-
ed by a nervous fever, brought on by the
hardships, indignities and insults she had
undergone. As he entered the room she
caught him by the hand and said —

<^ Thank God, you all have come at last ;
I am now safe !"

Her story was
short Her wrongs
and sufferings had
been long. Two or
three months previ-
ously, she had occa-
sion to pass through
the lines from Nash-
ville to Shelbyville.
When she arrived
there, it was discov-
ered by the secession
authorities that she
was a Unionist.
These two circum-
stances taken togeth-
er were enough to
convict her as a spy,
under the arbitrary
rulings of the Confederate Government
She was arrested, tried, and condemned to
be executed. She tried to make her escape
to the Federal lines, but could not succeed.
Before the day fixed for her execution
she was taken dangerously ill, and was
then removed to the house in which she was
discovered. They left Shelbyville in such
haste that they either forgot her or else
they had not the transportation to carry
her, — the only carriage that could be had,
carried General Bragg and family out of
town with great speed a few hours before
the Federals entered. An ambulance was
fitted up for Miss Cushman, and in it she
was sent forward by her deliverers.



ed in a Southern prison. Among them was
a young man — young, judging from the
skeleton-like but still powerful frame —
but old, from the pinched and ghastly &ce
— a dying one, at all events. Somebody
near by uttered the word, softly, " Starv-
ing!" But low as it was uttered, the
poor boy of whom it was spoken caught
the word.
** Yes," he said, feebly, " it is quite use-



SaUevad tliroacli tfa« Mncy of Death.

One morning the ambulance brought a load

of fourteen Federal prisoners to be immor-



MlUteiy Prison ftt SaUtbiuy, N. 0.



less, gentlemen — no," turning from the
bread that waA offered him, ** I loathe it
now. For days and days I have been
mad for it I have had murder in my
heart I thought if one died the rest
might live. Once we caught a dog and
roasted him, and quarreled over the bits.
We had no cover ; we lay on the scorch-
ing sand, and, when tha terrible heats were
over, came the raw fogs and bitter wind."

He stopped, seeBiing^ from exhaustion,
and lay a few moments silent; then the
pitiful voice conunenced again :

" We were very brave for a while ; we
thought help was coming. We never
dreamed they could go on at home eating,
lying soft, and making merry, while we
were dying by inches. I think if my
brother knew — If ever you get back I
charge you, before God, find out Robert



Digitized by



Google



6&2



THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION.



Bence, surgeon of the — Maine. Tell
him that his brother Jem starved to death,
and that thousands more are — Ah! just
Heaven ! the pain again ! O Christ ! help
me ! have — **

The words died away in inarticulate
ravings. He tossed his arms wildly over
his head; his whole frame racked with
the most awful throes. " And this," says
the narrator, '* was my poor boy ; so wast-
ed, so horribly tnmsformed, that I had not
known him. His glazing eyes had not
recognized me. His few remaining hours
were one long, raving agony. He never
knew that his brother was by his side. I
died over and over again, standing there
in my utter helplessness. I had never so
thanked Grod as when his moaning fell
away into the merciful silence of death."



XiM X«e6 and the Yankee OorporaL
After the battle of Manassas, the Union
prisoners were conveyed to the Richmond
prisons, and, as the train was compelled
to halt at every station from one to three
hours, the journey occupied two days.
Corporal W. H. Merrill, who was one of
the prisoners, had the honor of a coniabu-



Mto Ii60 and the Tankee Oorporal.

lation with one of the many bright-witted
ladies who contributed, by their 8pirit«d
words and acts, to give such eclat to the
cause of the South. According to the
Corporal:—



Arriving at Culpepper, the daughter of
Major Lee, a young and beautiful dam&el,
came up to the window from which I
leaned, and eneked if she could do anything
for me ; and added, " What did you come
down here for ? " ■ [This had become a ster-
eotyped query.] I replied, *To protect the
Stars and Stripes and preserve the Union."

My questioner then proceeded, afier the
uniform custom, to berate General Scott :
"That miserable old Scott — a Virginian
by birth — a traitor to his own State — we
aUhaUhimf"

Miss Lee wore upon her bonnet a mina-
ture silken secession flag, which ^he hand-
ed me, remarking that she thought I could
fight as well for the " Stars and Bars " as
for the Stars and Stripes. J pla3rfully re-
minded her that she had just denounc*ed
General Scott as a traitor to his own State
— and if I should fight for the " Stars and
Bars," I should be a traitor to the State
of New York ! This trivial ^irgument
was evidently a poser. " Oh," responded
she, " I had not thought of that ! " But
she insbted upon my acceptance of the
emblem of disloyalty, and I still retain it
out of kindly regard for the donor, ^he
cut the button from my coat sleeve, and I
consented to the "formal exchange,"
though not fully recognizing her as a " bel-
ligerent power."



Soaroely Seventeen Years, but a Heroine.

Miss Amelia E. Harmon, a beautiful
girl of some seventeen summers, played a
prominent part in the thiilling drama of
the Grettysburg battles. She occupied
with her relatives the best dwelling hou^
in the country round about, and visible
from the Seminaiy Ridge about a mile
west of Grettysburg. The destruction of
this building was alluded to by Mr. Eve-
rett in his celebrated Cemetery Oration.

Early on the eventful Wednesday
morning, the signs of the approaching
tempest were so numerous and unmistaka-
ble that Miss Harmon was prevented from
attending the school at Oak Ridge. Dur*



Digitized by



Google



DOMESTIC, WOMANLY, HOSPITAL, PRISON, ETC.



583



iug the charge of Bufbrd's cavalry, which
commenced the battle, the house in ques-
tion was forcibly occupied by the Federal
sharpshooters from which to fire upon the
rebels. On the repulse of the Union cav-
alry the Confederates announced their in-
tention of firing the building, in accordance
with the laws of war; it having been
used, they said, as a fort. The family and
the young lady protested, explaining that
the occupation was forcible, and not with
their consent, — the young lady adding
that * her mother, who was not now living,
was a Southern woman, and that she would
blush for her parentage if Southern men
could thus fire the house of defenceless
females, and turn them out in the midst of
battle ! '

One of the Confederates then approach
ed her and proposed, in a confidential man-
ner, that if she would prove that she was
not a renegade Southerner by hurralung
for the Southern Confederacy, he would
see what could be done. The yotmg he-
roine indignantly refused the mean pro-
posal, and, abandoning her burning home
with her aunt, ran the gauntlet of the fire
of the two armies.



Four-leflTffed Pets in the Army.

The correspondents of the St. Louis
Republican, Journal, and Democrat, of the
Chicago Tribune, Times, and Journal, the
Louisville Journal, and of the Cincinnati
Gazette, Enquirer, Times, and Commer-
cial, would do the country a most valuable
service by embodying in volume form the
diversified and sparkling contributions,
through their respective columns, with
which they favored the public during the
war. No chronicles were so widely read
or so greatly praised, especially by those
peculiarly interested in the Western troops.
* Bun ' and * Dot ' are thus delineated by
the same hand that could portray the storm
and carnage of battle :

They had the strangest pets in the army
— fiuch as nobody would think of taking
to at home, and yet they were little touches



of the gentler nature as gave one some
such cordial feeling, when seeing them, as
it is said residents of Bourbon county, Ky.,
habitually experience at so much a gallon.
One of the army boys carried a red squir-
rel through ^ thick and thm" over a thou-
sand miles, "Bun" eatmg hard tack like
a veteran and having the fireedom of the
tent, Another^s affections overflowed upon
a slow-winking, unspeculative little oW,
captured in Arkansas, and bearing a name
with a decidedly classical smack to it —
Minerva. A third gave his heart to a
3roung Cumberland mountain hear.

But chief among camp-pets were dogs.
Riding on the saddle-bow, tucked into a
baggage wagon, mounted on a knapsack,
growling under a gun, were dogs brought
to a premature end as to ears and tails,
and yellow at that; pug-nosed, square-
headed brutes, sleek terriers, delicate mor-
sels of spaniels — ^Tray, Blanche, Sweet-
heart, little dogs and all.

A dog, like a horse, comes to love the
rattle and crash of musket and cannon.
There was one in an Illinois regiment —
and perhaps regarded as belonging to it,
though his name might not have appeared
on the muster-roll — that chased half-spent
shot as a kitten frolics with a ball of worst-
ed. He was under fire, and twice wound-
ed, and lefl the tip of his tail at the battle
of* Stone River. Woe to the man that
had wantonly killed him ! But there waT
a little white spaniel that messed with one
of the batteries, and delighted in the name
of ^^Dot," who was a special favorite.
No matter what was up, that fellow's silken
coat must be washed every day and there
was need enough of it, for when the bat-
tery was on the march, they just plunged
him into the sponge-bucket — ^not the tidiest
chamber imaginable — that swings, like its
more peaceful neighbor, the tar-bucket,
under the rear axle of the gun-carriage —
plumped him into that, clapped on the
cover, and Dot was good for an inside pas-
sage. One day the battery crossed a
streamy and the water came well up to the



Digitized by



Google



584



THE BOOK OP ANECDOTES OP THE REBELLION.



guns. Nobody thought of Dot, and, when
all across, a guimer looked into the bucket
— alas ! it was full of water, and Dot was
as dead as a little dirty door-mat«



* Xr. BiohajrcUoxi TnitiatJug' his Itoftape.

One of the neatest 'sells' was that
practiced by Mr. Richardson, (the brilliant
writer for the New York Tribune,) upon
the prison guard at Salisbury, N. C, when
he — ^Mr. R., — made his escape from that
southern domidl, together with some sim-
ilarly situated comrades. In Mr. Richard-
son's account of his unique experience in
this matter, he says : —

Both " Junius " and our esteemed col-
laborator, Mr. William £. Davis, of the
Cincinnati Gazette, had been furnished
with passes to visit, during the day, a
rebel hospital, outside the fence and inner
line of guards, to order in medical sup-
plies for the prisoners. The inflexible
rule was, to exact paroles whenever passes
were granted, but in the confusion attend-
ant upon the great influx of prisoners, the
authorities had neglected to require them.
None of us would have given paroles in
any event ; but my friends had the good
fortune not to be asked for them.

On that Sunday evening, half an hour
before dark — the latest hour they could
pass the guard — they both went outside as
usual to the rebel hospital. A few min-
utes after, taking in my hand a great box
Ml of t?ie bottles in which medicines were
brought in, I, too, walked rapidly up to
the gate, while a dozen friends, in the se-
cret, were looking on to see the result. I
attempted to pass the sentinel, but he
halted me and asked :

" Have you a pass, Sir ? "

^ Certainly I have a pass," I answered.
^ Have you not seen it often enough to re-
member by this time ? "

"Very likely," he answered, a little
nonplussed, '^ but I was not quite sure, and
our orders are very strict."

Thereupon I exhibited to him the gen-
uine pass belonging to my colleague, whose



&ce was so well known to tlie sentinel —
though not his name, as the event prove' I
— that he had been able to go out withoi't
showing it. The soldier examined it, read-
ing slowly and with difficulty, ^ Guards
will permit Junius H. Browne, citizen-
prisoner, to pass the inner gate, to bring in
medical supplies ; " and then returned it,
saying: ^ All right, Sir; that pass is cor-
rect, for I know Captain Fuqua's hand-
writing."

Once outside, I hid the medical box be>
hind a fence, and found reftige in a little
outbuilding until dark. My two fria^ds
there joined me ; and we walked through
the outer gate into the streets in full view
of the guard, who, seeing us come from
the rebel hospital, supposed us to be sur-
geons or their assistants.

By skillftil movements, the escape so in-
geniously commenced, was carried out to
complete success, all of which Mr. Rich-
ardson admirably narrates in his book, —
" The Field, Dungeon, and Escape."



Oraat Act fbr a little GHiL
Mr. Herbert, a kind-hearted fiirmer in
Illinois, had a little daughter, who, hear-
ing her father ask others to give in aid of
the ^<^ and wounded sokiiers, thought of
what «Ae^ could da Of all her playthings
she had nothing which could be sold for
any amount and so bring money. But
she had a very sweet pet lamb, almost as
dear to her as a brother or a sister. That
surely would bring something. It was of
the very finest stock. She had tau^ it
many cunning tricks and winsome ways.
The two, child and lamb, had eaten from the
same dish, and many hours they had played
together upon the sunny hillside, and the
lamb, like " little Mary's," knew its name
as well as that of its mistress. She pro-
posed, with tears in her eyes, and almost
heart-broken to think of it, to give her
dear pet to the side and wounded soldiers.
She gave it, and she and the lamb together
went in the procession, on one of the
wagons. The president of the Soldiers^



Digitized by



Google



DOMESTIC, WOMANLY, HOSPITAL, PRISON, ETC.



585



Home gave twenty-five dollars for the
ktmb, and in his speech at the dinner, said
he should prize it very much, and through
the incident, teach his own daughter a les-
son. After they had placed the lamh in a
large hox to be sent to its purchaser's
country residence, its former little mis-
tress took leave of it, fondling and kissing