Three of our detachment--members of the Twentieth Indiana--had an experience of this kind that will serve to illustrate hundreds of others.

They had been taken outside to do some work upon the cook-house that was being built.

A guard was sent with the three a little distance into the woods to get a piece of timber.

The boys sauntered, along carelessly with the guard, and managed to get pretty near him.

As soon as they were fairly out of sight of the rest, the strongest of them--Tom Williams--snatched the Rebel's gun away from him, and the other two springing upon him as swift as wild cats, throttled him, so that he could not give the alarm.