The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war.

These arms, etc., came up to me at Alexandria, with orders from Governor Moore to receipt for and account for them.

Thus I was made the receiver of stolen goods, and these goods the property of the United States.
This grated hard on my feelings as an ex-army-officer, and on counting the arms I noticed that they were packed in the old familiar boxes, with the "U.

S." simply scratched off.

General G.
Mason Graham had resigned as the chairman of the Executive Committee, and Dr.S.A.Smith, of Alexandria, then a member of the State Senate, had succeeded him as chairman, and acted as head of the Board of Supervisors.