"Have you been in the rebel army long ?" "About four months; but I may as well begin at the beginning, and tell you the whole story," added the captain.

"I got to Norfolk all right, and was there when the news came up that the rebels had taken Sumter.

Every body was mad, and I was as mad as the rest of them, though not exactly in the same way.

I let on a little with my tongue, and came pretty near being tarred and feathered, and I think I should have been, if your uncle Wyman hadn't interfered." "Did he settle with you, father ?" "After a while he did.

He had some fifteen thousand dollars in New York, which had just been sent over from England, and as he was secesh, he was terribly afeard the Lincoln government would confiscate it; so he settled with me, and gave me a power of attorney to draw his money, pay myself, and take care of what was over.